The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes ...C. Knight, 1830 - Self-culture |
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... Literature , and Art , in all ages and countries , a body of examples , to shew how the most unpro- pitious circumstances have been unable to conquer an ardent desire for the acquisition of knowledge . Every man has difficulties to ...
... Literature , and Art , in all ages and countries , a body of examples , to shew how the most unpro- pitious circumstances have been unable to conquer an ardent desire for the acquisition of knowledge . Every man has difficulties to ...
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... literature . Furnished as society now is , in all its departments , with accommodations in aid of intellectual exertion , such as , in some respects , even the highest station and the greatest wealth in former times could not command ...
... literature . Furnished as society now is , in all its departments , with accommodations in aid of intellectual exertion , such as , in some respects , even the highest station and the greatest wealth in former times could not command ...
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... achievements produce a most powerful call upon his exertions in the pursuit of science and literature , that his acquisitions may be VOL . III . 2 * in some degree commensurate to his advantages . Finally , SELF - BDUCATION . 17.
... achievements produce a most powerful call upon his exertions in the pursuit of science and literature , that his acquisitions may be VOL . III . 2 * in some degree commensurate to his advantages . Finally , SELF - BDUCATION . 17.
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... literature or art , has had , doubtless , his moments of similar ecstasy . The ancient Greek philosopher PYTHAGORAS is said to have been the first who found out , or at least de- monstrated , the great geometrical truth that the square ...
... literature or art , has had , doubtless , his moments of similar ecstasy . The ancient Greek philosopher PYTHAGORAS is said to have been the first who found out , or at least de- monstrated , the great geometrical truth that the square ...
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... literature or science , ever became tired of it ; or would not have gladly devoted his whole life to it , if he could ? There may be other passions to which men will deliver themselves up , in the first instance , with greater ...
... literature or science , ever became tired of it ; or would not have gladly devoted his whole life to it , if he could ? There may be other passions to which men will deliver themselves up , in the first instance , with greater ...
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Page 303 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 386 - 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.
Page 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...
Page 23 - 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.
Page 223 - 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.
Page 301 - 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.
Page 257 - Nollet, preceptor in Natural Philosophy to the royal family, and an able experimenter, who had formed and published a theory of electricity, which then had the general vogue. He could not at first believe that such a work came from America, and said it must have been fabricated by his enemies at Paris, to decry his system. Afterwards, having been assured that there really existed such a person as Franklin at Philadelphia, which he had doubted, he wrote and published a volume of Letters...
Page 221 - 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.
Page 383 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 224 - Thus I went up Market Street as far as Fourth Street, passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me, and thought I made, as I certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.