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... manner in which both this great man and many others , possessing a portion of his observant and inventive genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement Occurrences of the boundaries of philosophy , of such common 2 THE PURSUIT ...
... manner in which both this great man and many others , possessing a portion of his observant and inventive genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement Occurrences of the boundaries of philosophy , of such common 2 THE PURSUIT ...
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... manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents did Sir Isaac New- ton read to the world , for the first time ...
... manner of looking at them , and , as it were , by the aid of a light of its own which it sheds upon their worn and obliterated lineaments . From one of these simple incidents did Sir Isaac New- ton read to the world , for the first time ...
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... manner , with regard to the law of gravitation : the fact of all bodies having a tendency to fall to the earth must of course have forced itself upon the attention of the very earliest inhabitants of our globe , every day and hour of ...
... manner , with regard to the law of gravitation : the fact of all bodies having a tendency to fall to the earth must of course have forced itself upon the attention of the very earliest inhabitants of our globe , every day and hour of ...
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... manner in which important truths will sometimes hide themselves for a long while from observation , even after science has approached almost so near as to touch them , is to be found in the history of the different discoveries relating ...
... manner in which important truths will sometimes hide themselves for a long while from observation , even after science has approached almost so near as to touch them , is to be found in the history of the different discoveries relating ...
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... manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ; while , by scraping away , in different degrees , such parts of the surface as might be required , the paper would be ...
... manner with little holes , which , being inked and laid upon paper , would un- doubtedly produce a black impression ; while , by scraping away , in different degrees , such parts of the surface as might be required , the paper would be ...
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Page 81 - 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 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 220 - ... 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.
Page 21 - 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 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 380 - 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 298 - Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 224 - 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.
Page 377 - ... 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 219 - 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 master of it.