The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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Page 21
... forming one body with that in the basin , descend , until , exactly as he had anticipated , there was left suspended a column of twenty - eight inches only . Now , by this experiment , in every way a most ingenious and beautiful one ...
... forming one body with that in the basin , descend , until , exactly as he had anticipated , there was left suspended a column of twenty - eight inches only . Now , by this experiment , in every way a most ingenious and beautiful one ...
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... formed themselves , as the following pages will show . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately circumstanced for the business of mental cultivation , bethink him ...
... formed themselves , as the following pages will show . And let him who , smitten by the love of knowledge , may yet conceive himself to be on any account unfortunately circumstanced for the business of mental cultivation , bethink him ...
Page 36
... formed an attachment during his residence there . Thus left , both of them , without a shilling , the young persons nevertheless determined to share each other's destiny , and they were accordingly united . By the exertions of some ...
... formed an attachment during his residence there . Thus left , both of them , without a shilling , the young persons nevertheless determined to share each other's destiny , and they were accordingly united . By the exertions of some ...
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... forming an acquaint- ance with him , took him one day to a foundery in Barthol- omew Close , when , after having shown ... formed , and a certain degree of aversion contracted for what we may call the discipline of apprenticeship in the ...
... forming an acquaint- ance with him , took him one day to a foundery in Barthol- omew Close , when , after having shown ... formed , and a certain degree of aversion contracted for what we may call the discipline of apprenticeship in the ...
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... a way so well fitted to purify and elevate his nature , and to fill him with sublimer conceptions , both of the wonderful universe around him , and of the * See page 21 . Infinite Mind that formed it . It ought not to.
... a way so well fitted to purify and elevate his nature , and to fill him with sublimer conceptions , both of the wonderful universe around him , and of the * See page 21 . Infinite Mind that formed it . It ought not to.
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