The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].Wells and Lilly, 1830 - 3 էջ |
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... probably meaning by that allusion , not only to express his modest conviction how mere an outskirt the field of his discoveries was , compared with the vastness of universal nature , but to describe likewise the spirit in which he had ...
... probably meaning by that allusion , not only to express his modest conviction how mere an outskirt the field of his discoveries was , compared with the vastness of universal nature , but to describe likewise the spirit in which he had ...
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... probably be not unfrequently the first to contrive and spread the fiction ; preferring , as he would in all likelihood do , the credit of being the chosen transmitter of super- natural communications to his fellow - mortals , to that of ...
... probably be not unfrequently the first to contrive and spread the fiction ; preferring , as he would in all likelihood do , the credit of being the chosen transmitter of super- natural communications to his fellow - mortals , to that of ...
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... probably might have been , for life , the employment of the genius that afterwards distinguished itself so greatly in one of the most important walks of philosophic discovery , but for circumstances which , at the time when they 46 THE ...
... probably might have been , for life , the employment of the genius that afterwards distinguished itself so greatly in one of the most important walks of philosophic discovery , but for circumstances which , at the time when they 46 THE ...
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... probably , even before this time , awakened something of ambition in the other , with a wish to escape from the obscure fortune to which he seemed destined . John now wrote to his brother , offering him his services as an assistant in ...
... probably , even before this time , awakened something of ambition in the other , with a wish to escape from the obscure fortune to which he seemed destined . John now wrote to his brother , offering him his services as an assistant in ...
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... probably with the view of being able to maintain at least some pretension to scholarship , but it does not appear that he carried his assump- tion of the academical character much farther . attained little acquaintance with the ...
... probably with the view of being able to maintain at least some pretension to scholarship , but it does not appear that he carried his assump- tion of the academical character much farther . attained little acquaintance with the ...
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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.