The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 1C. Knight, 1830 - 3 pages |
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... written many years after - his paper on a universal language - Leibnitz himself describes 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 paper on a universal language - Leibnitz himself describes 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 for- tune ; 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 for- tune ; but he was ...
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... writing , and not finding his hut so com- fortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud , and it is very intelligible why they should be so , of an illustrious ancestry ; but to those who ...
... writing , and not finding his hut so com- fortable as he could have wished , left with him a sum of money to rebuild it . Men are proud , and it is very intelligible why they should be so , of an illustrious ancestry ; but to those who ...
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... writing ; while an attempt that was made to give him some knowledge of Latin , ( accord- ing 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 knowledge of Latin , ( accord- ing 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 the 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 lauda- num before going to lecture ...
... writing , -comparing the 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 lauda- num before going to lecture ...
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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.