The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volumen1Knight, 1830 - 427 páginas |
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... immediately the truth of his conjecture by careful and repeated experiment ; and the result was the complete discovery of the principle of the most perfect measure of time which we yet possess . How striking a lesson is this for us when ...
... immediately the truth of his conjecture by careful and repeated experiment ; and the result was the complete discovery of the principle of the most perfect measure of time which we yet possess . How striking a lesson is this for us when ...
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... immediately to endeavour to account for the unexpected phenomenon ; and , after examining the case , came to the conclusion , that Nature cer- tainly abhorred a vacuum , but for the first two - and- thirty feet only ! It was his pupil ...
... immediately to endeavour to account for the unexpected phenomenon ; and , after examining the case , came to the conclusion , that Nature cer- tainly abhorred a vacuum , but for the first two - and- thirty feet only ! It was his pupil ...
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... immediately conceived the idea that it would be practicable to find a way of covering a plate of copper in the same manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ...
... immediately conceived the idea that it would be practicable to find a way of covering a plate of copper in the same manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ...
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... immediately perceiving that , as the water was equal to the bulk of his body , this would furnish him with the means of detecting the adulteration , by trying how much water a certain weight 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... immediately perceiving that , as the water was equal to the bulk of his body , this would furnish him with the means of detecting the adulteration , by trying how much water a certain weight 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... immediately set himself to work to find out by what means the thing must have been effected ; and in the course of a few hours satisfied himself that , by a certain ar- rangement of spherical glasses , he could repeat the new miracle ...
... immediately set himself to work to find out by what means the thing must have been effected ; and in the course of a few hours satisfied himself that , by a certain ar- rangement of spherical glasses , he could repeat the new miracle ...
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Página 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.
Página 307 - This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content though blind, had I no better guide.
Página 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...
Página 390 - 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.
Página 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.
Página 387 - ... 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.
Página 224 - ... and a glass of water, had the rest of the » time till their return for study, in which I made the greater progress, from that greater clearness of head and quicker apprehension which usually attend temperance in eating and drinking.
Página 307 - 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.
Página 223 - By comparing my work afterwards with the original, I discovered many faults and amended them ; but I sometimes had the pleasure of fancying that, in certain particulars of small import, I had been lucky enough to improve the method or the language, and this encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer, of which I was extremely ambitious.
Página 228 - 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.