The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 oldal |
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24. oldal
... would have worn out the strength of almost any other impulse with which we are acquainted . But this is an impulse which , we may venture to affirm , when once truly awakened , no discourage- ments 24 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... would have worn out the strength of almost any other impulse with which we are acquainted . But this is an impulse which , we may venture to affirm , when once truly awakened , no discourage- ments 24 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
37. oldal
... acquaintance with such subjects in the poor cow - herd , Forster , who was a lawyer , entered into conversation with him , and was so much struck by his information and intelligence , that he both sup- plied him with a number of books ...
... acquaintance with such subjects in the poor cow - herd , Forster , who was a lawyer , entered into conversation with him , and was so much struck by his information and intelligence , that he both sup- plied him with a number of books ...
44. oldal
... acquaintance with the higher branches of literature . The famous BEN JONSON worked for some time as a bricklayer or ma son ; " and let not them blush , " says Fuller , speak- ing of this circumstance in his English Worthies , ' with his ...
... acquaintance with the higher branches of literature . The famous BEN JONSON worked for some time as a bricklayer or ma son ; " and let not them blush , " says Fuller , speak- ing of this circumstance in his English Worthies , ' with his ...
51. oldal
... acquaintance with the literature even of his own profession ; and it not unfrequently hap- pened indeed , we are told , that upon communicating a supposed discovery of his own to some one of his more erudite friends , he had to suffer ...
... acquaintance with the literature even of his own profession ; and it not unfrequently hap- pened indeed , we are told , that upon communicating a supposed discovery of his own to some one of his more erudite friends , he had to suffer ...
59. oldal
... Bowyer , the printer , that gentleman sought him out ; and after forming an acquaintance with him , took him one day to a foundery in Bartholomew Close , when , after having shewn him something of the nature of the business * See p . 52 .
... Bowyer , the printer , that gentleman sought him out ; and after forming an acquaintance with him , took him one day to a foundery in Bartholomew Close , when , after having shewn him something of the nature of the business * See p . 52 .
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21. oldal - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 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.
297. oldal - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
71. oldal - 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...
211. 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.
287. 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: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
365. oldal - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
208. oldal - ... the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
209. 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.
212. oldal - ... woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
291. 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.