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... less active and original minds . We are not now speak- like alacrity in seizing upon whatever contributions of know- ledge Nature threw at his feet , and of submission to all the intimations of observation and experiment . On some ...
... less active and original minds . We are not now speak- like alacrity in seizing upon whatever contributions of know- ledge Nature threw at his feet , and of submission to all the intimations of observation and experiment . On some ...
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... consequence was that the calculation did not answer ; it indicated , in fact , a force of gravity in the moon towards the earth less by one - sixth than that which was necessary to give the rate of motion 12 PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... consequence was that the calculation did not answer ; it indicated , in fact , a force of gravity in the moon towards the earth less by one - sixth than that which was necessary to give the rate of motion 12 PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... less or greater height , a less or greater quantity of it being , of course , required to bal - posed to be its balance , ought ance the atmospheric column . to be shortened likewise in a Mercury , for example , is about corresponding ...
... less or greater height , a less or greater quantity of it being , of course , required to bal - posed to be its balance , ought ance the atmospheric column . to be shortened likewise in a Mercury , for example , is about corresponding ...
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... less instances of persons , in every rank of life , who for the sake of gratifying it have con- tended with and overcome such difficulties and impedi- ments of all sorts as certainly would have worn out the strength of almost any other ...
... less instances of persons , in every rank of life , who for the sake of gratifying it have con- tended with and overcome such difficulties and impedi- ments of all sorts as certainly would have worn out the strength of almost any other ...
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... less advanced fellow - students . BARTHOLOMEW ARNIGIO , an Italian poet of the sixteenth century , of con- siderable genius and learning , followed his father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his ...
... less advanced fellow - students . BARTHOLOMEW ARNIGIO , an Italian poet of the sixteenth century , of con- siderable genius and learning , followed his father's trade of a blacksmith till he was eighteen years old , when he began of his ...
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The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties [By G.L. Craik]. Continuation George Lillie Craik Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2015 |
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Seite 106 - Whose powers shed round him in the common strife, Or mild concerns of ordinary life, A constant influence, a peculiar grace ; But who, if he be called upon to face Some awful moment to which Heaven has joined Great issues, good or bad for human kind, Is happy as a Lover ; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired...
Seite 225 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Seite 170 - 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.
Seite 106 - Is happy as a Lover; and attired With sudden brightness, like a Man inspired ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw; Or if an unexpected call succeed, Come when it will, is equal to the need...
Seite 224 - 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.
Seite 225 - 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.
Seite 25 - 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 Fesolè, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Seite 202 - 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. Keimer made verses too, but very indifferently. He could not be said to write them, for his manner was to compose them in the types directly out of his head. So there being no copy, but one pair of cases, and the Elegy likely to require all the letter, no one could help him.
Seite 168 - 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.
Seite 167 - I had gone on making verses; since the continual occasion for words of the same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind and make me a master of it.