The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1C. Knight, 1830 - 3 pages |
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... master . With only this assistance , and sometimes with hardly this , some of the greatest scholars and philosophers that ever appeared have formed themselves , as the following pages will shew . And let him who , smitten by the love of ...
... master . With only this assistance , and sometimes with hardly this , some of the greatest scholars and philosophers that ever appeared have formed themselves , as the following pages will shew . And let him who , smitten by the love of ...
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... - tetus's own conduct was strikingly in conformity with the lessons he taught , at least if we may believe one of the stories which are told of him . It is said , that 66 before he had obtained his liberty , his master.
... - tetus's own conduct was strikingly in conformity with the lessons he taught , at least if we may believe one of the stories which are told of him . It is said , that 66 before he had obtained his liberty , his master.
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... master , who was a very brutal man , chose one day to amuse himself by twisting the leg of his slave . " You will break it for me , " remarked Epictetus . Immediately after , it happened as he had said . I told you so , " added the ...
... master , who was a very brutal man , chose one day to amuse himself by twisting the leg of his slave . " You will break it for me , " remarked Epictetus . Immediately after , it happened as he had said . I told you so , " added the ...
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... master , Zeno , with great punctuality . On the death of Zeno , he succeeded him in his school , but still continued his menial labours as usual . " I draw water , " he was wont to say , " and do any other sort of work which presents ...
... master , Zeno , with great punctuality . On the death of Zeno , he succeeded him in his school , but still continued his menial labours as usual . " I draw water , " he was wont to say , " and do any other sort of work which presents ...
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... master to another hermitage , or religious house , near Lunéville , the inmates of which set him to take charge of their little herd of cattle , consisting only of five or six cows , while one of them took the trouble of teaching him to ...
... master to another hermitage , or religious house , near Lunéville , the inmates of which set him to take charge of their little herd of cattle , consisting only of five or six cows , while one of them took the trouble of teaching him to ...
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Page 307 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 305 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 136 - Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 83 - That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine...
Page 227 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there.
Page 228 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
Page 387 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 136 - Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Page 23 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 225 - They read it, commented on it in my hearing, and I had the exquisite pleasure of finding it met with their approbation, and that, in their different guesses at the author, none were named but men of some character among us for learning and ingenuity.