The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 էջ |
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... 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 the truth of his ...
... 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 the truth of his ...
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... Italian poet of the sixteenth century , of considerable genius and learning , followed his father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his own accord to apply to his studies ; and by availing himself ...
... Italian poet of the sixteenth century , of considerable genius and learning , followed his father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his own accord to apply to his studies ; and by availing himself ...
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... Italian sculptor , was the son of a gold- smith , and the grandson of a common coalman ; but having in the course of his life acquired great wealth , and having been created by the Emperor Charles V. a knight of the order of St. James ...
... Italian sculptor , was the son of a gold- smith , and the grandson of a common coalman ; but having in the course of his life acquired great wealth , and having been created by the Emperor Charles V. a knight of the order of St. James ...
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... Italy , and then , in the service of France , in Piedmont : till , after passing through a succession of other fortunes , which we cannot afford space to relate , he was induced by the solicitations of La Rovère , Bishop of Agen , to ac ...
... Italy , and then , in the service of France , in Piedmont : till , after passing through a succession of other fortunes , which we cannot afford space to relate , he was induced by the solicitations of La Rovère , Bishop of Agen , to ac ...
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... Italian writer GELli , who , even after he had obtained so much distinction by his writings as to have been elected to the high dig- nity of consul of the Florentine Academy , and ap- pointed by the grand duke to deliver a course of 40 ...
... Italian writer GELli , who , even after he had obtained so much distinction by his writings as to have been elected to the high dig- nity of consul of the Florentine Academy , and ap- pointed by the grand duke to deliver a course of 40 ...
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The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Հատոր 1 George Lillie Craik Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Հատոր 1 George Lillie Craik Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1830 |
The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik]. George Lillie Craik Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1834 |
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 297 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 212 - ... woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther. Thus...
Էջ 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.