The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... mentioned . In reading the work , wherever a complicated sentence could be made clearer by division or modification ... mention of American examples , with the exception of notices of Frank- lin , West , and Ledyard , the latter have ...
... mentioned . In reading the work , wherever a complicated sentence could be made clearer by division or modification ... mention of American examples , with the exception of notices of Frank- lin , West , and Ledyard , the latter have ...
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... mention for the vacant office . Such a testimony from Ruhnken was at once the most honorable and the most efficient patronage Heyne could have had . He was immediately nominated to the professorship ; although so little known , that it ...
... mention for the vacant office . Such a testimony from Ruhnken was at once the most honorable and the most efficient patronage Heyne could have had . He was immediately nominated to the professorship ; although so little known , that it ...
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... mention no more instances , CLEANTHES , anoth- er of the Stoics , was brought up to the profession of a pugilist , and used to exhibit himself in that character at the public games ; till , longing to study philosophy , he betook ...
... mention no more instances , CLEANTHES , anoth- er of the Stoics , was brought up to the profession of a pugilist , and used to exhibit himself in that character at the public games ; till , longing to study philosophy , he betook ...
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... mention a few of those which we may not after- wards find so convenient an occasion of noticing . The celebrated Italian poet , METASTASIO , was the son of a common mechanic , and used when a little boy to sing his extemporaneous verses ...
... mention a few of those which we may not after- wards find so convenient an occasion of noticing . The celebrated Italian poet , METASTASIO , was the son of a common mechanic , and used when a little boy to sing his extemporaneous verses ...
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... mentioned , have risen to great wealth or high civil dignities , it is not for this that we have mentioned them . We bring them forward to show that neither knowledge , nor any of the advantages which naturally flow from it , are the ...
... mentioned , have risen to great wealth or high civil dignities , it is not for this that we have mentioned them . We bring them forward to show that neither knowledge , nor any of the advantages which naturally flow from it , are the ...
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