The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volume 2Nattali and Bond, 1860 |
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... eminence in intellectual pursuits can confer must be shared with many of obscure birth and low station ; and on that account alone has doubtless seemed often the less worthy of ambition to those who were already raised above the crowd ...
... eminence in intellectual pursuits can confer must be shared with many of obscure birth and low station ; and on that account alone has doubtless seemed often the less worthy of ambition to those who were already raised above the crowd ...
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... eminent , next to Alfred , is JAMES I. of Scotland , whose poem , entitled the " King's Quhair , " composed by him during his im- prisonment in Windsor Castle , we have already men- tioned * . James was born in 1394 , but having been ...
... eminent , next to Alfred , is JAMES I. of Scotland , whose poem , entitled the " King's Quhair , " composed by him during his im- prisonment in Windsor Castle , we have already men- tioned * . James was born in 1394 , but having been ...
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... eminence among the class to which he belongs , were merely such works as have been produced among every people having the use of letters , as soon as they have acquired for themselves what may be called a history ; and indicate not 16 ...
... eminence among the class to which he belongs , were merely such works as have been produced among every people having the use of letters , as soon as they have acquired for themselves what may be called a history ; and indicate not 16 ...
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... eminent professor Frederick Ruysch , whose museum he afterwards purchased for the sum of thirty thousand florins . Peter , indeed , neglected no opportunity , during his travels , of forming the ac- quaintance of distinguished ...
... eminent professor Frederick Ruysch , whose museum he afterwards purchased for the sum of thirty thousand florins . Peter , indeed , neglected no opportunity , during his travels , of forming the ac- quaintance of distinguished ...
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... eminent artists who then re- sided in that city , some of whom he engaged to ac- company him to Russia . He afterwards expended very considerable sums in the purchase both of pic- tures and sculptures ; and commenced the formation of a ...
... eminent artists who then re- sided in that city , some of whom he engaged to ac- company him to Russia . He afterwards expended very considerable sums in the purchase both of pic- tures and sculptures ; and commenced the formation of a ...
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