Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Its Pleasures and Rewards. Illustrated by Memoirs of Eminent Men, Volume 1Harper & Brothers, 1840 - Self-culture |
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... at once the important applications which might be made of the thought that had suggested itself to him . He took care , therefore , to ascertain immedi- ately the truth of his conjecture by careful and re- 14 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... at once the important applications which might be made of the thought that had suggested itself to him . He took care , therefore , to ascertain immedi- ately the truth of his conjecture by careful and re- 14 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... took in his new employment , that in two or three days he knew the place of every volume in the shop , and could find any one , when asked for , more readily than his master himself . After a short time he had learned to read ; and then ...
... took in his new employment , that in two or three days he knew the place of every volume in the shop , and could find any one , when asked for , more readily than his master himself . After a short time he had learned to read ; and then ...
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... took his meals in the midst of his books . Three hard eggs and a draught of water formed his com- mon repast ; and a sort of cradle , which he had made for the purpose , served him both for his elbow- chair during the day , and for a ...
... took his meals in the midst of his books . Three hard eggs and a draught of water formed his com- mon repast ; and a sort of cradle , which he had made for the purpose , served him both for his elbow- chair during the day , and for a ...
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... took the trouble of teach- ing him to write . He had a few books at command , which he perused with great eagerness . He some- times , too , procured a little money by the produce of his skill and activity in the chase , and this he ...
... took the trouble of teach- ing him to write . He had a few books at command , which he perused with great eagerness . He some- times , too , procured a little money by the produce of his skill and activity in the chase , and this he ...
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... took a journey to his native village , purchased the cottage in which his father had lived , and erected on its site , at his own expense , a commodious dwelling - house for the parish schoolmaster . He always kept up a cor- respondence ...
... took a journey to his native village , purchased the cottage in which his father had lived , and erected on its site , at his own expense , a commodious dwelling - house for the parish schoolmaster . He always kept up a cor- respondence ...
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Page 168 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 166 - 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 everduring 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 169 - 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 77 - take a long thin piece of whalebone, hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.
Page 194 - This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest.
Page 198 - This facility was partly owing to the method pursued by their father and me in instructing them, which was, to make them thoroughly acquainted with the meaning of every word in each sentence that was to be committed to memory.
Page 80 - it was much easier to draw from the life than from any picture whatever, as nature was more striking than any imitation of it." His success in this new profession struck his country patrons as so remarkable, that they determined upon carrying him to Edinburgh, in order that he might be regularly instructed in those parts of the art of which he was still ignorant, Lady Dipple liberally agreeing to allow him to live in her house for two years.
Page 275 - ... incomparably better pleased than he had been in all the stages of his life before. And it is a mortifying speculation, that of the different characters of this man's enjoyments, separated one from the other, and exposed to an indifferent choice, there is scarce any one but this I have here described, really worth taking up. And yet the slavery of our nature is such, that this must be despised, and all the rest, with the attendant evils of vexation, disappointments, dangers, loss of health, disgraces,...
Page 91 - To this spot,' says his amiable and intelligent biographer, Lord Teignmouth, ' he returned every evening after sunset, and in the •morning rose so early, as to reach his apartments in town, by walking, at the first appearance of dawn. The intervening period of each morning, until the opening of court, was regularly allotted and applied to distinct studies.
Page 89 - In after life his maxim was never to neglect any opportunity of improvement which presented itself. In conformity with this rule, while making the most wonderful exertions in the study of Greek, Latin, and the Oriental languages, at Oxford, he took advantage of the vacations to learn riding and fencing, and to read all the best authors in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and French; thus, to transcribe an observation of his own, " with the fortune of a peasant, giving himself the education of a prince.