The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1C. Knight, 1830 - 3 pages |
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... observation and inquiry , without which there can be no success . Sir ISAAC NEWTON , of all men that ever lived , is the one who has most extended the territory of human know- ledge ; and he used to speak of himself as having B been all ...
... observation and inquiry , without which there can be no success . Sir ISAAC NEWTON , of all men that ever lived , is the one who has most extended the territory of human know- ledge ; and he used to speak of himself as having B been all ...
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... observation and experiment . On some occasions he was wont to say , that , if there was any mental habit or endowment in which he excelled the generality of men , it was that of pa- tience in the examination of the facts and phenomena ...
... observation and experiment . On some occasions he was wont to say , that , if there was any mental habit or endowment in which he excelled the generality of men , it was that of pa- tience in the examination of the facts and phenomena ...
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... observation and experiment of their due honours , by substituting speculation in their place . The ancients thought , erroneously , that discoveries were to be made by pursuing a train of conjecture , instead of ascertaining results ...
... observation and experiment of their due honours , by substituting speculation in their place . The ancients thought , erroneously , that discoveries were to be made by pursuing a train of conjecture , instead of ascertaining results ...
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... observed thousands of times before . But yet nobody had ever viewed it with the philosophic attention with which it was on this occasion examined by Galileo . Or if , as possibly was the case , any one had been half unconsciously struck ...
... observed thousands of times before . But yet nobody had ever viewed it with the philosophic attention with which it was on this occasion examined by Galileo . Or if , as possibly was the case , any one had been half unconsciously struck ...
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... observed ! Let it be at least verified and re- corded . No truth is altogether barren ; and even that which looks at ... observation of all the world . The phenomenon of a heavy body swinging to and fro from a point of suspension had ...
... observed ! Let it be at least verified and re- corded . No truth is altogether barren ; and even that which looks at ... observation of all the world . The phenomenon of a heavy body swinging to and fro from a point of suspension had ...
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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.