THE LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE.

THE

PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE

UNDER DIFFICULTIES;

ILLUSTRATED BY ANECDOTES.

BOSTON:

WELLS AND LILLY, COURT-STREET.

G. & C. & H. Carvill, and E. Bliss, New York; Carey & Hart, Philadel-
phia; W. & J. Neal, Baltimore; P. Thompson, Washington; R. D.
Sanxay, Richmond; W. H. Berrett, Charleston, S. C.; Mary Carroll,
N. Orleans; Odiorne & Smith, Mobile ; Little & Cummings, Albany ; H.
Howe, New Haven; S. Butler & Son, Northampton; Whipple &
Lawrence, Salem; C. Whipple, Newburyport and S. Colman, Portland.

1830.

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTION. Newton; Galileo; Torricelli; Pascal;

Prince Rupert; Montgolfier. Self-education

CHAPTER II.

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Strength of the Passion for Knowledge. Pythagoras; Archi-

medes; Leibnitz; Galileo; Heyne

CHAPTER III.

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Humble Station no Obstacle. Epictetus; Protagoras; Cle-

anthes; Hauy; Winckelman; Arnigio; Duval.-Affec-

tation of high birth. Bandinelli; Scaliger.-Men proud

of their low Origin. Protogones; Baudouin; Gelli.—

Obscure origin. Metastasio; Haydn; Opie; Parini;

Prideaux; Saunders; Linnæus; Lomonosoff; B. Jonson;

the Milners; John Hunter.-Application of examples. 31

CHAPTER IV.

Artists rising from the lower to the higher branches. B. Cel-

lini; Q. Matsys; Ibbetson; Kent; Towne; Kirby;

Schiavoni; Hogarth; Sharp; Thew; Caslon.-Late

learners. Cromwell; Sir W. Jones; Cato Censor;

Alfred: Moliere; Valerianus; Vondell; Pitot; Paucton;

Ogilby

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CHAPTER V.

Early age of great men. Short term of their Lives. New-

ton; Gregory; Torricelli; Pascal; Cowper; Burns;

Byron; Sydney; Otway; Collins; Mozart; Raphael

Correggio; Politian; Mirandola

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CHAPTER VI.

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Self-educated Men. T. Simpson

CHAPTER VII.

Self-educated Men continued. E. Stone; J. Stone. Pursuit

of Knowledge and Business united. Cicero; Jones;

Cæsar; Scipio; Polybius; Frederick II.; Sully; De

Thou; More; Selden; Hale; Grotius

CHAPTER VIII.

Buch-

Literary Pursuits of Soldiers.--Descartes; B. Jonson;

anan; Cervantes.-Of Sailors. Dampier; Davis;

Drury; Falconer; Giordani; Fransham; Oswald; Co-

lumbus; Cook; Vancouver; Collingwood

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CHAPTER IX.

Literary Pursuits of Merchants. Solon; Guys; D. North;

Ricardo

CHAPTER X.

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Literary Pursuits of Booksellers and Printers. Gesner;

Aldus Manutius, Paul, and Aldus the Younger;. R.

Stephens; H. Stephens; Scapula; Colinæus; Badius;

Froben; Oporinus; Ruddiman; Bowyer; Nichols;

Richardson

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