The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 էջ |
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... immediately the truth of his conjecture by careful and repeated experiment ; and the result was the complete discovery of the principle of the most perfect measure of time which we yet possess . How striking a lesson is this for us when ...
... immediately the truth of his conjecture by careful and repeated experiment ; and the result was the complete discovery of the principle of the most perfect measure of time which we yet possess . How striking a lesson is this for us when ...
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... immediately to endeavour to account for the unexpected phenomenon ; and , after examining the case , came to the conclusion , that nature cer- tainly abhorred a vacuum , but for the first two - and- thirty feet only ! It was his pupil ...
... immediately to endeavour to account for the unexpected phenomenon ; and , after examining the case , came to the conclusion , that nature cer- tainly abhorred a vacuum , but for the first two - and- thirty feet only ! It was his pupil ...
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... immediately conceived the idea that it would be practicable to find a way of covering a plate of copper in the same manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ...
... immediately conceived the idea that it would be practicable to find a way of covering a plate of copper in the same manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ...
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... immediately perceiving that , as the water was equal to the bulk of his body , this would furnish him with the means of detecting the adulteration , by trying how much water a certain weight 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... immediately perceiving that , as the water was equal to the bulk of his body , this would furnish him with the means of detecting the adulteration , by trying how much water a certain weight 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... immediately set himself to work to find out by what means the thing must have been effected ; and in the course of a few hours satisfied himself that , by a certain ar- rangement of spherical glasses , he could repeat the new miracle ...
... immediately set himself to work to find out by what means the thing must have been effected ; and in the course of a few hours satisfied himself that , by a certain ar- rangement of spherical glasses , he could repeat the new miracle ...
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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.