The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 oldal |
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12. oldal
... forming one body with that in the basin , descend , until , exactly as he had anticipated , there remained suspended a column of twenty - eight inches TORRICELLI . PASCAL , PRINCE RUPERT . 13 only . 12 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... forming one body with that in the basin , descend , until , exactly as he had anticipated , there remained suspended a column of twenty - eight inches TORRICELLI . PASCAL , PRINCE RUPERT . 13 only . 12 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
19. oldal
... remained to create a doubt that it was indeed the truth which he had found and upon which he was gazing . Every other discoverer , or inventor , or creator of any of the great works of literature or art , has had , doubtless , his ...
... remained to create a doubt that it was indeed the truth which he had found and upon which he was gazing . Every other discoverer , or inventor , or creator of any of the great works of literature or art , has had , doubtless , his ...
36. oldal
... remained there for two years in the service of a farmer , who gave him his flocks to keep . Chancing then to make his appearance at the hut of a hermit , the recluse was so much struck by the intelligence of his answers , that he ...
... remained there for two years in the service of a farmer , who gave him his flocks to keep . Chancing then to make his appearance at the hut of a hermit , the recluse was so much struck by the intelligence of his answers , that he ...
43. oldal
... remained till he gradually made his way to a fellowship . The father of INIGO JONES , the great architect , who built the Banqueting - house at Whitehall , and many other well - known edifices , was a cloth - worker ; and he him- self ...
... remained till he gradually made his way to a fellowship . The father of INIGO JONES , the great architect , who built the Banqueting - house at Whitehall , and many other well - known edifices , was a cloth - worker ; and he him- self ...
86. oldal
... times of the pretensions of that visionary science , which may be said to have remained , for many ages after , nearly the universal faith of Europe . { CHAPTER VI . Self - educated Men . T. Simpson 86 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... times of the pretensions of that visionary science , which may be said to have remained , for many ages after , nearly the universal faith of Europe . { CHAPTER VI . Self - educated Men . T. Simpson 86 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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305. oldal - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
136. oldal - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
307. oldal - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
227. oldal - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
23. oldal - Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
225. oldal - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.
83. oldal - ... to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a christian, might do for mine...
224. oldal - ... and a glass of water, had the rest of the » time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.
223. oldal - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
228. oldal - I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and, being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.