The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... in science or literature , in spite of every disadvantage of birth . Heyne , as we have men- tioned , was the son of a poor weaver . So was the Abbé * About seventy - seven cents . HAUY , who died in Paris a few years ago.
... in science or literature , in spite of every disadvantage of birth . Heyne , as we have men- tioned , was the son of a poor weaver . So was the Abbé * About seventy - seven cents . HAUY , who died in Paris a few years ago.
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Illustrated by Anecdotes George Lillie Craik Francis Wayland. HAUY , who died in Paris a few years ago , celebrated for his writings and discoveries in Crystallography — a science , indeed , of which he may be almost considered the ...
Illustrated by Anecdotes George Lillie Craik Francis Wayland. HAUY , who died in Paris a few years ago , celebrated for his writings and discoveries in Crystallography — a science , indeed , of which he may be almost considered the ...
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... died when he was in his boyhood , and left him to be the only support of his widowed mother ; while , to add to his difficulties , he was attacked in his nineteenth year by a paralysis , which rendered him a cripple for life . The ...
... died when he was in his boyhood , and left him to be the only support of his widowed mother ; while , to add to his difficulties , he was attacked in his nineteenth year by a paralysis , which rendered him a cripple for life . The ...
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... died ; and under the charge of his mother , it is probable that he was left to act as he chose , with still less restraint than ever . Such was his aversion at this time to any thing like regular application , that it was with no small ...
... died ; and under the charge of his mother , it is probable that he was left to act as he chose , with still less restraint than ever . Such was his aversion at this time to any thing like regular application , that it was with no small ...
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... died , in consideration of which he used to give them other rare animals to exhibit , on condition of also receiving their remains at their death . His friends and former pupils , too , were wont to send him , from every part of the ...
... died , in consideration of which he used to give them other rare animals to exhibit , on condition of also receiving their remains at their death . His friends and former pupils , too , were wont to send him , from every part of the ...
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