The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 pages |
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... mere an outskirt the field of his discoveries was , compared with the vastness of universal nature , but to describe ... merely another form of that teachableness which constituted the character of the man . He loved Truth , and wooed ...
... mere an outskirt the field of his discoveries was , compared with the vastness of universal nature , but to describe ... merely another form of that teachableness which constituted the character of the man . He loved Truth , and wooed ...
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... mere chance has sometimes suggested , even to the most inattentive understandings . How far we are indebted to this ... merely for the sake of effect . Nay , in those times , the discoverer himself might probably be not unfrequently the ...
... mere chance has sometimes suggested , even to the most inattentive understandings . How far we are indebted to this ... merely for the sake of effect . Nay , in those times , the discoverer himself might probably be not unfrequently the ...
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... merely to the application of a law to the movements of the hea- venly 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 ...
... merely to the application of a law to the movements of the hea- venly 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 ...
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... mere words and phrases , in the place of philosophy . At least let what we are now to relate restrain a little the expres- sion of our contempt for the philosophy of the school- men , as to the present matter , and our exultation in a ...
... mere words and phrases , in the place of philosophy . At least let what we are now to relate restrain a little the expres- sion of our contempt for the philosophy of the school- men , as to the present matter , and our exultation in a ...
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... merely a counter- balance to a column of air of equal basis , reaching to the top of the atmosphere . But if so , it then oc- curred to him , that another liquid , heavier or lighter than water , will , in similar circumstances , ascend ...
... merely a counter- balance to a column of air of equal basis , reaching to the top of the atmosphere . But if so , it then oc- curred to him , that another liquid , heavier or lighter than water , will , in similar circumstances , ascend ...
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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.