The Juvenile Plutarch:: Containing Accounts of the Lives of Celebrated Children, and of the Infancy of Persons who Have Been Illustrious for Their Virtues Or Talents. With Plates..Tabart and Company at the Juvenile Library, 157, New Bond Street., 1806 - 204 oldal |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 18 találatból.
19. oldal
... never forgot either it or the circum- stance that introduced it . " His father and mother taught him to write , and they appear to have been studious to prevent a provincial accent : when he had attained his se- venth he attended the ...
... never forgot either it or the circum- stance that introduced it . " His father and mother taught him to write , and they appear to have been studious to prevent a provincial accent : when he had attained his se- venth he attended the ...
26. oldal
... never afterwards able to engage in any serious study . His disease , which was termed a nervous atrophy , daily assuming a more fatal appearance , he at length finished his mortal career , without a groan or even a sigh , No- vember 26 ...
... never afterwards able to engage in any serious study . His disease , which was termed a nervous atrophy , daily assuming a more fatal appearance , he at length finished his mortal career , without a groan or even a sigh , No- vember 26 ...
28. oldal
... never rested until she had ob- tained the object of her inquiry ; and she was possessed of so quick and pe- netrating a genius , that she easily comprehended the most intricate sub- jects . In her very 28 Anna Maria Schurman . Anna ...
... never rested until she had ob- tained the object of her inquiry ; and she was possessed of so quick and pe- netrating a genius , that she easily comprehended the most intricate sub- jects . In her very 28 Anna Maria Schurman . Anna ...
97. oldal
... never idle . He shows himself likewise very good - natured to his dependents , and supports their in- terests against any persons whatever ; and pushes what he undertakes for them or others with such zeal as gives success to it . For ...
... never idle . He shows himself likewise very good - natured to his dependents , and supports their in- terests against any persons whatever ; and pushes what he undertakes for them or others with such zeal as gives success to it . For ...
100. oldal
... never omitted to acknowledge in the handsomest manner the letters and books which they sent to him . An ingenious person having one day presented to him a small poem , the Prince received it very graci- ously , and desired a gentleman ...
... never omitted to acknowledge in the handsomest manner the letters and books which they sent to him . An ingenious person having one day presented to him a small poem , the Prince received it very graci- ously , and desired a gentleman ...
Gyakori szavak és kifejezések
able acquaintance acquired admiration afterwards amuse appear astonished astronomy attained attention Baynard Binfield born Captain celebrated character child composition considerable Countess of Mar delight discover discoveries disposition Earl of Sussex early elegant eminent engaged Euclid's Elements excellence Fabius father formed friends Gainsborough genius gentleman Greek Greek languages guage Hanham Hartsocker holy orders HORATIO NELSON illustrious improvement ingenious instructions judgment juvenile kind King knowledge languages Latin Latin languages learning letter Majesty manner master mathematics ment mind Mirandula nature observed parents period person philosophy Picus Piero de Medici piety placed pleased poem poet Politian Pope powers praise Prince professor pursuits racter Royal says scholars sent ship Sir Isaac SIR WILLIAM PETTY soon spirit studies subjects talents tance taught ther THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH tion took tures uncommon University of Florence verse virtue worthy writing wrote young youth
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193. oldal - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
196. oldal - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.
190. oldal - I had my time, readers, as others have who have good learning bestowed upon them, to be sent to those places where the opinion was it might be soonest attained, and as the manner is was not unstudied in those authors which are most commended: whereof some were grave orators and historians, whose matter methought I loved indeed, but as my age then was, so I understood them...
159. oldal - Who does not wish that Dryden could have known the value of the homage that was paid him, and foreseen the greatness of his young admirer ? The earliest of Pope's productions is his " Ode
185. oldal - Miserable they! Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible.
142. oldal - Whence then comes wisdom? And where is the place of understanding? It is hid from the eyes of all living, and concealed from the birds of the air. Abaddon and Death say, 'We have heard a rumor of it with our ears.
185. oldal - Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun ; While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, The long long night, incumbent o'er their heads, Falls horrible. Such was the Briton's fate...
185. oldal - He for the passage sought, attempted since So much in vain, and seeming to be shut By jealous Nature with eternal bars. In these fell regions, in Arzina caught, And to the stony deep his idle ship Immediate seal'd, he with his hapless crew, Each full exerted at his several task, Froze into statues; to the cordage glued The sailor, and the pilot to the helm.
19. oldal - I had now gained the point I aimed at : and saw, that his reason taught him (though he could not so express it) that what begins to be must have a cause, and that what is formed with regularity must have an intelligent cause. I therefore told him the name of the Great Being who made him and all the world ; concerning whose adorable nature I gave him such information as I thought he could in some measure comprehend. The lesson affected him greatly, and he never forgot either it, or the circumstance...
37. oldal - It is an instrument of small bulk and price, easily made, and very durable, whereby any man, even at the first sight and handling, may write two resembling copies of the same thing at once, as serviceably and as fast (allowing two lines upon each page on setting the instruments) as by the ordinary way; of what nature, or in what character, or what matter soever, as paper, parchment, a book, be. the said writing ought to be made upon.