Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Its Pleasures and Rewards : in Two Volumes, Հատոր 1Harper & brothers, 1858 |
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... , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philosophy , of such common occurrences as , from their very commonness , had t escaped the attention of all less active and original minds 10 THE PURSUIT OF KNowledge .
... , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philosophy , of such common occurrences as , from their very commonness , had t escaped the attention of all less active and original minds 10 THE PURSUIT OF KNowledge .
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... attention ; and the little inci- dent which interrupted him was instantly seized upon by his eager spirit , and , by that power which is in genius , assimilated with his thoughts . The exist- ence of gravitation , or a tendency to fall ...
... attention ; and the little inci- dent which interrupted him was instantly seized upon by his eager spirit , and , by that power which is in genius , assimilated with his thoughts . The exist- ence of gravitation , or a tendency to fall ...
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... attention was first awakened to this most important fact , by observing the movements of a lamp suspended from the ceiling , which some accident had disturbed and caused to vibrate . Now this , or something exactly similar , was a ...
... attention was first awakened to this most important fact , by observing the movements of a lamp suspended from the ceiling , which some accident had disturbed and caused to vibrate . Now this , or something exactly similar , was a ...
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... attention was ever called . But of what he read really worth recollecting , he undoubtedly recollect- ed a great deal . He was , indeed , a library of refer- ence upon all sorts of subjects for the other literary men of his time , who ...
... attention was ever called . But of what he read really worth recollecting , he undoubtedly recollect- ed a great deal . He was , indeed , a library of refer- ence upon all sorts of subjects for the other literary men of his time , who ...
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... attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at Dresden , where it was expected this high patronage would make his fortune ; but he was doomed only 32 THE PURSUIT OF ...
... attention of one of the Saxon ministers , he was induced , by the advice of his friends , to set out for the court at Dresden , where it was expected this high patronage would make his fortune ; but he was doomed only 32 THE PURSUIT OF ...
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Էջ 168 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Էջ 166 - 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 everduring 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 169 - 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.
Էջ 218 - I was not quite thirteen when this happened; my little brother was hardly two; and we had not a relation nor a friend in the world.
Էջ 77 - take a long thin piece of whalebone, hold one end of it fast between your finger and thumb, and wind it round your finger; it will then endeavour to unwind itself ; and if you fix the other end of it to the inside of a small hoop, and leave it to itself, it will turn the hoop round and round, and wind up a thread tied to the outside of the hoop.
Էջ 194 - This kind of life — the cheerless gloom of a hermit, with the unceasing moil of a galley-slave, brought me to my sixteenth year ; a little before which period I first committed the sin of rhyme. You know our country custom of coupling a man and woman together as partners in the labours of harvest.
Էջ 195 - I had met with a collection of letters by the wits of Queen Anne's reign, and I pored over them most devoutly ; I kept copies of any of my oven letters that pleased me ; and a comparison between them and the composition of most of my correspondents flattered my vanity. I carried this whim so far, that though I had not three farthings...
Էջ 73 - ... length between my eye and the stars, sliding the beads upon it till they hid such and such stars from my eye, in order to take their apparent distances from one another ; and then, laying the thread down on a paper, I marked the stars thereon by the beads, according to their respective positions, having a candle by me.
Էջ 211 - Elegy on Aquila Rose, before mentioned, an ingenious young man, of excellent character, much respected in the town, clerk of the Assembly, and a pretty poet.
Էջ 195 - A Select Collection of English Songs, and Hervey's Meditations, had formed the whole of my reading. The collection of Songs was my vade mecum. I pored over them, driving my cart, or walking to labour, song by song, verse by verse ; carefully noting the true tender, or sublime, from affectation and fustian. I am convinced I owe to this practice much of my critic craft, such as it is.