The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... says , gaidismoe asgids I never will despair . to - dosoqa badeilduq The soldier on the battle plain omaa edi in ods of ton idgno Jud od blago When thirsting to be free , To throw aside the galling chain , obo And strike for Liberty ...
... says , gaidismoe asgids I never will despair . to - dosoqa badeilduq The soldier on the battle plain omaa edi in ods of ton idgno Jud od blago When thirsting to be free , To throw aside the galling chain , obo And strike for Liberty ...
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... say , that , if there was any mental habit or endowment , in which he excelled the generality of men , it was that of patience in the examina- tion of the facts and phenomena of his subject . This was merely another form of that ...
... say , that , if there was any mental habit or endowment , in which he excelled the generality of men , it was that of patience in the examina- tion of the facts and phenomena of his subject . This was merely another form of that ...
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... say into how many addi- tional misconceptions and misstatements he might have been seduced , in order to cover the consequences of his first error ; or how much the simplicity of the grand truth which had revealed itself to him , as it ...
... say into how many addi- tional misconceptions and misstatements he might have been seduced , in order to cover the consequences of his first error ; or how much the simplicity of the grand truth which had revealed itself to him , as it ...
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... say , it was left to another to discover that he had done so . It was the great PASCAL , a man of sub- lime and universal genius , who , upon hearing of Torricelli's experiment , first made the remark , that the inference which he had ...
... say , it was left to another to discover that he had done so . It was the great PASCAL , a man of sub- lime and universal genius , who , upon hearing of Torricelli's experiment , first made the remark , that the inference which he had ...
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... say nothing of their comparatively short endurance , their certainty to pall upon repetition , and the positively injurious and destroying tendency of many of them , are , from the na- ture of things , necessarily limited in point of ...
... say nothing of their comparatively short endurance , their certainty to pall upon repetition , and the positively injurious and destroying tendency of many of them , are , from the na- ture of things , necessarily limited in point of ...
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