The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 pages |
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... body of examples , to shew how the most unpro- pitious circumstances have been unable to conquer an ardent desire for the acquisition of knowledge . Every man has difficulties to encounter in this pur- suit ; and therefore every man is ...
... body of examples , to shew how the most unpro- pitious circumstances have been unable to conquer an ardent desire for the acquisition of knowledge . Every man has difficulties to encounter in this pur- suit ; and therefore every man is ...
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... bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet ; and the great Galileo had even ascertained the law , or rate ... body upon which it operated . This result he had already anticipated from the consi- deration that , although we ...
... bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet ; and the great Galileo had even ascertained the law , or rate ... body upon which it operated . This result he had already anticipated from the consi- deration that , although we ...
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... bodies , which was already known to affect at least every body in the immediate neighbourhood of the earth . But these things are only simple after they are explained . Slight and transparent as we may think the veil to have been which ...
... bodies , which was already known to affect at least every body in the immediate neighbourhood of the earth . But these things are only simple after they are explained . Slight and transparent as we may think the veil to have been which ...
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... bodies ; but as the principle , when affecting bodies in the neighbour- hood of the earth , was that of a force ... body , nobody for two thousand years found out the true reason why , on its removal from the barrel of the pump by ...
... bodies ; but as the principle , when affecting bodies in the neighbour- hood of the earth , was that of a force ... body , nobody for two thousand years found out the true reason why , on its removal from the barrel of the pump by ...
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... body . Let us not , however , deride with too much levity these errors and follies of the old interpreters of nature . We ourselves are only yet casting off the yoke of that ignorance in the guise of wisdom , under which the men of ...
... body . Let us not , however , deride with too much levity these errors and follies of the old interpreters of nature . We ourselves are only yet casting off the yoke of that ignorance in the guise of wisdom , under which the men of ...
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Page 219 - I had gone on making verses ; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me master of it.