The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].C. Knight, 1834 - Self-culture |
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... philosopher , he had first , to use his own Janguage , gathered it like a child . It is , indeed , most instructive to all who are anxious to engage in the pursuit of knowledge , ( and is therefore properly introductory to the general ...
... philosopher , he had first , to use his own Janguage , gathered it like a child . It is , indeed , most instructive to all who are anxious to engage in the pursuit of knowledge , ( and is therefore properly introductory to the general ...
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... philosophers might exercise , it came to be popularly thought that discoveries were dependent upon chance , because the steps from one train of speculative reasoning to another could not be traced with the same ease as we now trace the ...
... philosophers might exercise , it came to be popularly thought that discoveries were dependent upon chance , because the steps from one train of speculative reasoning to another could not be traced with the same ease as we now trace the ...
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... philosopher , too single - hearted a lover of truth , for this . In his mind , the refutation was a complete one , and it was admitted as such at once . He had made his calculation with care , although one of its elements was false ; it ...
... philosopher , too single - hearted a lover of truth , for this . In his mind , the refutation was a complete one , and it was admitted as such at once . He had made his calculation with care , although one of its elements was false ; it ...
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... philosopher of Italy ( for he had not then reached his twentieth year ) saw at once the important appli- cations which might be made of the thought that had suggested itself to him . He took care , therefore , to ascertain immediately ...
... philosopher of Italy ( for he had not then reached his twentieth year ) saw at once the important appli- cations which might be made of the thought that had suggested itself to him . He took care , therefore , to ascertain immediately ...
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... philosophers , HERO of Alexandria , had , about a century before the birth of Christ , constructed upon that principle the fountain , or jet d'eau , which still goes by his name . The common suction - pump is a still older invention ...
... philosophers , HERO of Alexandria , had , about a century before the birth of Christ , constructed upon that principle the fountain , or jet d'eau , which still goes by his name . The common suction - pump is a still older invention ...
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Page 307 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 136 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
Page 83 - 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 136 - Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
Page 23 - 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 223 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Page 238 - I was to continue doing a sheet a day of the folio that one night, when having imposed my forms I thought my day's work over, one of them by accident was broken and two pages reduced to pi, I immediately distributed and composed it over again before I went to bed ; and this industry, visible to our neighbors, began to give us character and credit. Particularly I was told that mention being made of the new printing-office at the merchants...
Page 225 - 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 307 - 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.
Page 227 - I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea. I was dirty from my journey; my pockets were stuffed out with shirts and stockings, and I knew no soul nor where to look for lodging.