The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 oldal |
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21. oldal
... written many years after - his paper on a universal language - Leibnitz himself describes to us what he calls the infantine joy which this idea brought with it , when it first suggested itself to him , filling his mind , as it did ...
... written many years after - his paper on a universal language - Leibnitz himself describes to us what he calls the infantine joy which this idea brought with it , when it first suggested itself to him , filling his mind , as it did ...
28. oldal
... written having attracted the attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at Dresden , where it was expected this high patronage would make his for- tune ; but he was ...
... written having attracted the attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at Dresden , where it was expected this high patronage would make his for- tune ; but he was ...
38. oldal
... writing , and not finding his hut so com- fortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud , and it is very intelligible why they should be so , of an illustrious ancestry ; but to those who ...
... writing , and not finding his hut so com- fortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud , and it is very intelligible why they should be so , of an illustrious ancestry ; but to those who ...
65. oldal
... written . In no long time he attained to a great proficiency in his new study , as several translations from Latin authors which he has left behind him abundantly testify . Among these are a version of Boethius's ' Consolations of ...
... written . In no long time he attained to a great proficiency in his new study , as several translations from Latin authors which he has left behind him abundantly testify . Among these are a version of Boethius's ' Consolations of ...
67. oldal
... his first lessons in Latin from his son's tutor , in order to be able to read some mathematical works written in that language Another French mathematician , the ingenious PAUCTON , whose Metrology which he wished to consult . PITOT . 67.
... his first lessons in Latin from his son's tutor , in order to be able to read some mathematical works written in that language Another French mathematician , the ingenious PAUCTON , whose Metrology which he wished to consult . PITOT . 67.
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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.