The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1840 |
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... written many years after - his treatise on a universal language - Leibnitz himself de- scribes to us what he calls the infantine joy which this idea brought with it , when it first suggested itself to him , filling his mind , as it did ...
... written many years after - his treatise on a universal language - Leibnitz himself de- scribes to us what he calls the infantine joy which this idea brought with it , when it first suggested itself to him , filling his mind , as it did ...
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... written , having attracted the attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at Dresden , where it was expected this high patronage would make his fortune ; but he was ...
... written , having attracted the attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at Dresden , where it was expected this high patronage would make his fortune ; but he was ...
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... writing , and not finding his hut so comfortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud of an illustrious ancestry ; and it is very intelligible why they should be so ; but to those who have ...
... writing , and not finding his hut so comfortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud of an illustrious ancestry ; and it is very intelligible why they should be so ; but to those who have ...
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... writing ; while an attempt that was made to give him some knowl- edge of Latin , ( according to the plan of education then almost universally followed , in regard to the sons of even the smallest landed proprietors in Scotland , ) was ...
... writing ; while an attempt that was made to give him some knowl- edge of Latin , ( according to the plan of education then almost universally followed , in regard to the sons of even the smallest landed proprietors in Scotland , ) was ...
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... writing ; comparing this process to the taking of stock by a tradesman , without which he cannot know , with certainty ... written a life of John Hunter , that he always used to swallow thirty drops of laudanum , before going to lecture ...
... writing ; comparing this process to the taking of stock by a tradesman , without which he cannot know , with certainty ... written a life of John Hunter , that he always used to swallow thirty drops of laudanum , before going to lecture ...
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