The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 - Self-culture |
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... never having been established , either by experiment or reasoning , or in any other way , but at the same time being always so gravely propounded as a universal truth that it never was questioned by any body . Let us not , however ...
... never having been established , either by experiment or reasoning , or in any other way , but at the same time being always so gravely propounded as a universal truth that it never was questioned by any body . Let us not , however ...
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... never excites in us an interest dangerous to feel , nor holds up to us an example criminal to follow ; because its conquests have been a blessing and not a curse to humanity . CHAPTER II . Strength of the Passion for Knowledge . 18 THE ...
... never excites in us an interest dangerous to feel , nor holds up to us an example criminal to follow ; because its conquests have been a blessing and not a curse to humanity . CHAPTER II . Strength of the Passion for Knowledge . 18 THE ...
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... never been able to accomplish the high enterprise which he had so early planned , he declares that the deeper he had carried his reflections and inquiries , he had only become the more convinced of its practica- bility . Such allurement ...
... never been able to accomplish the high enterprise which he had so early planned , he declares that the deeper he had carried his reflections and inquiries , he had only become the more convinced of its practica- bility . Such allurement ...
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... never before revealed themselves to the eye , nor even been dreamed of by the imagination of man . While Ga- lileo resided at Venice , a report was brought to that city that a Dutchman had presented to Count Maurice of Nassau an ...
... never before revealed themselves to the eye , nor even been dreamed of by the imagination of man . While Ga- lileo resided at Venice , a report was brought to that city that a Dutchman had presented to Count Maurice of Nassau an ...
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... never forgot , however , either his early benefactors , or departed from that simplicity of character and manners which the humble nature of his origin and first fortunes had given him . It is grati- fying indeed to have to tell , that ...
... never forgot , however , either his early benefactors , or departed from that simplicity of character and manners which the humble nature of his origin and first fortunes had given him . It is grati- fying indeed to have to tell , that ...
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Page 303 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 386 - The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.
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 23 - 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 223 - 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 301 - 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 257 - Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had formed and published a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue. He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to decry his system. Afterwards, having been assured that there really existed such a person as Franklin at Philadelphia, which he had doubted, he wrote and published a volume of Letters...
Page 221 - 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 383 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 224 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.