The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 pages |
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... 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 interested in learn- ing what are the real hindrances ...
... 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 interested in learn- ing what are the real hindrances ...
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... circumstance , and one strikingly illustrative of the truly philosophic character of this great man's mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he naturally adopted the common estimate of the ...
... circumstance , and one strikingly illustrative of the truly philosophic character of this great man's mind . In the computations which he undertook for the purpose of this investigation , he naturally adopted the common estimate of the ...
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... nothing better to offer than the old solution of the difficulty , in a case attended with circumstances which to us would seem obvious . A pump of more than thirty - two to have made the necessity for abandoning it GALILEO . 11.
... nothing better to offer than the old solution of the difficulty , in a case attended with circumstances which to us would seem obvious . A pump of more than thirty - two to have made the necessity for abandoning it GALILEO . 11.
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... circumstances , ascend to a correspondingly less or greater height , a less or greater quantity of it being , of course , required to balance the atmospheric column . Mercury , for ex- ample , is about thirteen times and a half as heavy ...
... circumstances , ascend to a correspondingly less or greater height , a less or greater quantity of it being , of course , required to balance the atmospheric column . Mercury , for ex- ample , is about thirteen times and a half as heavy ...
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... circumstance of things then especially before him . " Such is the way in which out of a very little matter has not unfrequently grown a large produce of philosophy . Originally , all human knowledge was nothing more than the knowledge ...
... circumstance of things then especially before him . " Such is the way in which out of a very little matter has not unfrequently grown a large produce of philosophy . Originally , all human knowledge was nothing more than the knowledge ...
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Page 21 - 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 297 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 71 - 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 211 - 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 287 - 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: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 365 - 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 208 - ... the papers again, by expressing each hinted sentiment at length, and as fully as it had been expressed before, in any suitable words that should come to hand. Then I compared my Spectator with the original, discovered some of my faults, and corrected them.
Page 209 - 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.
Page 212 - ... woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Page 291 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.