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... talents . He had began to favour learning before he was a great scholar himself , and to be acquainted with it before he could make use of it . " In the British Museum there is a book of Exercises made by this prince , in English ...
... talents . He had began to favour learning before he was a great scholar himself , and to be acquainted with it before he could make use of it . " In the British Museum there is a book of Exercises made by this prince , in English ...
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... talents , and was asked by him if he could imitate a little duet of Carissimi to the words " Dite o Cieli . " Blow mo- destly answered he would try , and composed in the same measure , and the same key , that fine song , " Go perjured ...
... talents , and was asked by him if he could imitate a little duet of Carissimi to the words " Dite o Cieli . " Blow mo- destly answered he would try , and composed in the same measure , and the same key , that fine song , " Go perjured ...
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... talents exceeds any thing of the kind we have met with . Christian Henry Heinsken was born at Lubeck , February 6 , 1721. He had completed his first year , when he already knew and recited the principal facts contained in the five books ...
... talents exceeds any thing of the kind we have met with . Christian Henry Heinsken was born at Lubeck , February 6 , 1721. He had completed his first year , when he already knew and recited the principal facts contained in the five books ...
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... talent . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY . " When I was yet a child , no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know , and thence to do What might be public good : myself I thought Born to that end , born to ...
... talent . SIR PHILIP SYDNEY . " When I was yet a child , no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know , and thence to do What might be public good : myself I thought Born to that end , born to ...
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... talents and attainments , whose boundless invention and invincible industry , enabled him to rush naked into the amphitheatre of life , and sustain a brilliant part , though his spectators were contemptuous and cold , did not give very ...
... talents and attainments , whose boundless invention and invincible industry , enabled him to rush naked into the amphitheatre of life , and sustain a brilliant part , though his spectators were contemptuous and cold , did not give very ...
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Page 26 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
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Page 110 - They were first inclined to set him up as a mark to shoot at; but the chief interfered, and seizing him by the shoulder asked him if he could run fast? Colter, who had been some time amongst the Kee-kat-sa, or Crow Indians, had in a considerable degree acquired the Blackfoot language, and was also well acquainted with Indian customs.
Page 111 - ... that the Indians were very much scattered, and that he had gained ground to a considerable distance from the main body; but one Indian, who carried a spear, was much before all the rest, and not more than a hundred yards from him.
Page 153 - That officer answered that considering the handsome way in which battle was offered by the enemy, their apparent determination for a fair trial of strength, and the situation of the land, he thought it would be a glorious result if fourteen were captured. He replied: "I shall not be satisfied with less than twenty.