The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... minds . We are not now speaking of such lucky discov- eries as mere chance has sometimes suggested , even to the most inattentive understandings . How far we are indebted to this source for many of those ordinary arts , the origin of ...
... minds . We are not now speaking of such lucky discov- eries as mere chance has sometimes suggested , even to the most inattentive understandings . How far we are indebted to this source for many of those ordinary arts , the origin of ...
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... mind extracts new and important truths , simply by its new manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own , which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents ...
... mind extracts new and important truths , simply by its new manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own , which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents ...
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... mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he naturally adopted the common estimate of the magnitude of the earth , which was at that time in use among our geographers and seamen . Indeed , no ...
... mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he naturally adopted the common estimate of the magnitude of the earth , which was at that time in use among our geographers and seamen . Indeed , no ...
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... mind , the refutation was a complete one , and it was admitted as such at once . He had made his calculation with care , although one of its elements was false ; it did not present the result it ought to have done , had his hypothesis ...
... mind , the refutation was a complete one , and it was admitted as such at once . He had made his calculation with care , although one of its elements was false ; it did not present the result it ought to have done , had his hypothesis ...
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... mind which has been rightly prepared , by pre- vious knowledge and reflection , which is in a condition to profit by the opportunity . Another example , which may be given , is that of the famous PRINCE RUPERT'S supposed discovery of ...
... mind which has been rightly prepared , by pre- vious knowledge and reflection , which is in a condition to profit by the opportunity . Another example , which may be given , is that of the famous PRINCE RUPERT'S supposed discovery of ...
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