The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, כרך 1C. Knight, 1830 - 3 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 31
עמוד 2
... favourite theory ; partially , therefore , and hastily , as one would consult a dictionary : Newton perused it as a volume altogether worthy of being studied for its own sake . Hence proceeded both the patience with which he traced its ...
... favourite theory ; partially , therefore , and hastily , as one would consult a dictionary : Newton perused it as a volume altogether worthy of being studied for its own sake . Hence proceeded both the patience with which he traced its ...
עמוד 29
... favourite researches , in a city so rich in collections of books and antiquities as Dresden . After he had held his situa- tion in the library for above two years , his salary was doubled ; but before he derived any benefit from the ...
... favourite researches , in a city so rich in collections of books and antiquities as Dresden . After he had held his situa- tion in the library for above two years , his salary was doubled ; but before he derived any benefit from the ...
עמוד 49
... favourite investigations . In this retreat ( at Brompton ) , he had collected , " says Sir Everard Home , many kinds of animals and birds ; and it was to him a favourite amusement in his walks 66 F 66 to attend to their actions and ...
... favourite investigations . In this retreat ( at Brompton ) , he had collected , " says Sir Everard Home , many kinds of animals and birds ; and it was to him a favourite amusement in his walks 66 F 66 to attend to their actions and ...
עמוד 64
... about with him in his bosom . This became the commencement of a collection of favourite sentences from the Latin writers , which Alfred , ever aspiring after excellence , soon became ambitious to be able 64 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... about with him in his bosom . This became the commencement of a collection of favourite sentences from the Latin writers , which Alfred , ever aspiring after excellence , soon became ambitious to be able 64 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
עמוד 67
... favourite science . It is a curious circumstance , however , and shews at once his ardour in the pursuit of knowledge , and the penalty he was long afterwards obliged to pay for his early negligence , that he actually submitted , when ...
... favourite science . It is a curious circumstance , however , and shews at once his ardour in the pursuit of knowledge , and the penalty he was long afterwards obliged to pay for his early negligence , that he actually submitted , when ...
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עמוד 307 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
עמוד 305 - 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...
עמוד 136 - 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 ; And, through the heat of conflict, keeps the law In calmness made, and sees what he foresaw...
עמוד 83 - 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...
עמוד 227 - 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.
עמוד 228 - Street wharf, near the boat I came in, to which I went for a draught of the river water; and being filled with one of my rolls, gave the other two to a woman and her child that came down the river in the boat with us, and were waiting to go farther.
עמוד 387 - 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.
עמוד 136 - Come when it will, is equal to the need: —He who, though thus endued as with a sense And faculty for storm and turbulence, Is yet a Soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes; Sweet images! which, wheresoe'er he be, Are at his heart; and such fidelity It is his darling passion to approve; More brave for this, that he hath much to love...
עמוד 23 - 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.
עמוד 225 - 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.