The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. |
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... poor weaver , with a large family , for whom his best exertions were often unable to provide bread . In the ' Memoirs of his own Life , ' Heyne says , " Want was the earliest companion of my childhood . I well remember the painful ...
... poor weaver , with a large family , for whom his best exertions were often unable to provide bread . In the ' Memoirs of his own Life , ' Heyne says , " Want was the earliest companion of my childhood . I well remember the painful ...
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... poor and destitute as ever . In this ex- tremity , a copy of Latin verses which he had written having attracted the attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at ...
... poor and destitute as ever . In this ex- tremity , a copy of Latin verses which he had written having attracted the attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at ...
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... poor , indeed , that the wind having blown aside his mantle one day when he hap- pened to be present at one of the public shews , his fellow - citizens perceived that he had no tunic , or under garment , and gave him one . He was always ...
... poor , indeed , that the wind having blown aside his mantle one day when he hap- pened to be present at one of the public shews , his fellow - citizens perceived that he had no tunic , or under garment , and gave him one . He was always ...
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... poor , indeed , that the wind having blown aside his mantle one day when he hap- pened to be present at one of the public shews , his fellow - citizens perceived that he had no tunic , or under garment , and gave him one . He was always ...
... poor , indeed , that the wind having blown aside his mantle one day when he hap- pened to be present at one of the public shews , his fellow - citizens perceived that he had no tunic , or under garment , and gave him one . He was always ...
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... poor peasant of Champagne , and lost his father when he was ten years of age . He was then taken into the service of a farmer in the village ; but being soon after turned off for some petty fault , he resolved to leave his native place ...
... poor peasant of Champagne , and lost his father when he was ten years of age . He was then taken into the service of a farmer in the village ; but being soon after turned off for some petty fault , he resolved to leave his native place ...
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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.