The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... Saunderson ; Rugendas ; Diodotus ; Didymus ; Eusebius ; Ni- caise ; De Pagan ; Euler ; Moyes , CHAPTER XV . · Difficulties occasioned by Blindness conquered : — Homer ; Milton ; Salinas ; Stanley ; Metcalf ; 159 179 180 . 198 199 216 ...
... Saunderson ; Rugendas ; Diodotus ; Didymus ; Eusebius ; Ni- caise ; De Pagan ; Euler ; Moyes , CHAPTER XV . · Difficulties occasioned by Blindness conquered : — Homer ; Milton ; Salinas ; Stanley ; Metcalf ; 159 179 180 . 198 199 216 ...
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... Saunderson ; Rugendas ; Di- odotus ; Didymus ; Eusebius ; Nicaise ; De Pagan ; Euler ; Moyes . STILL more depressing , than any of those deprivations which we have yet considered , are such natural inflic- tions , as close up ...
... Saunderson ; Rugendas ; Di- odotus ; Didymus ; Eusebius ; Nicaise ; De Pagan ; Euler ; Moyes . STILL more depressing , than any of those deprivations which we have yet considered , are such natural inflic- tions , as close up ...
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... SAUNDERSON , was born at the village of Thurston , in Yorkshire , in 1682. He was only a year old , when he was deprived , by smallpox , not only of his sight , but even of his eyes , themselves , which were de- stroyed by abscess . Yet ...
... SAUNDERSON , was born at the village of Thurston , in Yorkshire , in 1682. He was only a year old , when he was deprived , by smallpox , not only of his sight , but even of his eyes , themselves , which were de- stroyed by abscess . Yet ...
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... distinguishing colors which we chiefly make use of to measure every variety of distance , form , and motion , which objects assume , and of many of them to ascertain even a multitude of other qualities . Above SAUNDERSON . RUGENDAS . 219.
... distinguishing colors which we chiefly make use of to measure every variety of distance , form , and motion , which objects assume , and of many of them to ascertain even a multitude of other qualities . Above SAUNDERSON . RUGENDAS . 219.
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... aptitude for this new study , as he had done for that of the ancient languages . A gentleman , residing in the neighborhood of his native village , gave him his first lessons in geometry ; and he received 19 * SAUNDERSON . 221.
... aptitude for this new study , as he had done for that of the ancient languages . A gentleman , residing in the neighborhood of his native village , gave him his first lessons in geometry ; and he received 19 * SAUNDERSON . 221.
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