The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. |
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... pursuing a train of conjecture , instead of ascertaining results ; and thus , whatever patience and labour philosophers might exercise , it came to be popularly thought that discoveries were dependent upon chance , because the steps ...
... pursuing a train of conjecture , instead of ascertaining results ; and thus , whatever patience and labour philosophers might exercise , it came to be popularly thought that discoveries were dependent upon chance , because the steps ...
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... Pursuing this thought , he at last , after a variety of experiments , invented a species of steel roller , covered with points , or salient teeth , which , being pressed against the copper - plate , indented it in the manner he wished ...
... Pursuing this thought , he at last , after a variety of experiments , invented a species of steel roller , covered with points , or salient teeth , which , being pressed against the copper - plate , indented it in the manner he wished ...
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... pursued amidst all sorts of difficulties and dis- couragements , is the best evidence we can offer of the strength of the passion which has sprung up and lived in circumstances so unfavourable to its growth , and therefore of the ...
... pursued amidst all sorts of difficulties and dis- couragements , is the best evidence we can offer of the strength of the passion which has sprung up and lived in circumstances so unfavourable to its growth , and therefore of the ...
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... pursue his literary education ; and it was fortunate for the world that he was at this period of his life furnished with the means of following the course of his inclination . He had another godfather , who was a clergyman in the ...
... pursue his literary education ; and it was fortunate for the world that he was at this period of his life furnished with the means of following the course of his inclination . He had another godfather , who was a clergyman in the ...
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... pursued his studies continued so great , that it at last brought on a dangerous illness , which obliged him to resign his situation , and very soon completely exhausted his trifling resources , so that on his recovery he found himself ...
... pursued his studies continued so great , that it at last brought on a dangerous illness , which obliged him to resign his situation , and very soon completely exhausted his trifling resources , so that on his recovery he found himself ...
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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.