Biography of self-taught men [by B. B. Edwards and S. G. Bagley].T. Nelson and Sons, 1869 - 288 páginas |
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... never yet great excel- lence without great effort ; that the best kind of genius is that which lies in the will ; and that nothing is impossible to perseverance . Contents . Page JAMES COOK , BENJAMIN WEST , JOHN viii Preface .
... never yet great excel- lence without great effort ; that the best kind of genius is that which lies in the will ; and that nothing is impossible to perseverance . Contents . Page JAMES COOK , BENJAMIN WEST , JOHN viii Preface .
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... never afterwards did he advance so rapidly in geometry and the kindred studies , in the same number of hours ' application to them , as in the evening after ten or twelve hours of hard labour in the field . Having obtained per- mission ...
... never afterwards did he advance so rapidly in geometry and the kindred studies , in the same number of hours ' application to them , as in the evening after ten or twelve hours of hard labour in the field . Having obtained per- mission ...
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... never attained to a style of ordinary correctness in his orthography . The disadvantages of the want of an early education , can never , indeed , be entirely overcome . There will always be lingering traces of the deficiency . It is ...
... never attained to a style of ordinary correctness in his orthography . The disadvantages of the want of an early education , can never , indeed , be entirely overcome . There will always be lingering traces of the deficiency . It is ...
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... never were circumstances more favourable than among us for the development and employment of mind . In this coun- try , character and influence can be gained by vigorous individual effort . Almost every position in society is with- in ...
... never were circumstances more favourable than among us for the development and employment of mind . In this coun- try , character and influence can be gained by vigorous individual effort . Almost every position in society is with- in ...
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... never received any regular education , he had before this made a few attempts at verse - making , and in his extremity he bethought him of turning his talent in this way to some account . He immediately commenced his studies , which he ...
... never received any regular education , he had before this made a few attempts at verse - making , and in his extremity he bethought him of turning his talent in this way to some account . He immediately commenced his studies , which he ...
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acquainted acquired afterwards ALEXANDER WILSON artist assistance astronomical became began Benjamin West brother Captain Cook character circumstances colours commenced copy cylinder Davy death determined discovered discovery distinguished early employed endeavoured engaged England English exhibited expedition father favour feelings friends gave genius Greek Greek language honour Hörberg hundred immediately instruction invention island JAMES COOK JAMES WATT John Hunter JOHN LEYDEN JOHN OPIE kind knowledge labours land language Latin learning Leyden literary lived London Lord Minto master ment miles mind native nature never Niebuhr object observations obtained Opie Ornithology painter painting parallax peasant picture poem poet pursuits racter received Royal Society sailed says Scotland self-taught sent shillings ship shore Society Islands soon steam talent taste thought tion took traveller vessel visited voyage Watt West whole young
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Página 161 - Appeared the rough initials of my name, Cut forty years before ! The same old clock Struck the same bell, and gave my heart a shock I never can forget. A short breeze sprung, And while a sigh was trembling on my tongue, Caught the old dangling almanacs behind, And up they flew like banners in the wind ; Then gently, singly, down, down, down they went, And told of twenty years that I had spent Far from my native land. That instant came A robin on the threshold ; though so tame, At first he looked...
Página 166 - Shipwreck. Pallas and Plato are forgotten, in the recollection of Falconer and Campbell : — " Here in the dead of night by Lonna's steep, The seaman's cry was heard along the deep.
Página 231 - Two days afterwards, while the editor was sitting with some company after dinner, a sound was heard at a distance like that of the whistling of a tempest through the torn rigging of the vessel which scuds before it. The sounds increased as they approached more near; and Leyden (to the great astonishment of such of the guests as did not know him) burst into the room, chanting the desiderated ballad with the most enthusiastic...
Página 127 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.
Página 127 - It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible, all over the world, the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned; completed the dominion of mind over the most refractory qualities of matter; and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations.
Página 127 - Independently of his great attainments in mechanics, Mr. Watt was an extraordinary, and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understanding, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it.
Página 170 - The vessel, while the dread event draws nigh, Seems more impatient o'er the waves to fly : Fate spurs her on : — thus issuing from afar, Advances to the sun some blazing star ; And, as it feels th' attraction's kindling force, Springs onward with accelerated course.
Página 154 - Paradise Lost,' and some novels. These books he lent to Robert ; who spent all his leisure hours in reading the 'Seasons,' which he was now capable of reading. I never heard him give so much praise to any book as to that.
Página 175 - Had he," proceeds his biographer, " in the commencement of his career been furnished with all those appliances which he enjoyed at a later period, it is more than probable that he might never have acquired that wonderful tact of manipulation, that ability of suggesting expedients, and of contriving apparatus so as to meet and surmount the difficulties which must constantly arise during the progress of the philosopher through the unbeaten tracks and unexplored regions of science. In this art Davy...
Página 128 - He had a certain quiet and grave humour, which ran through most of his conversation, and a vein of temperate jocularity, which gave infinite zest and effect to the condensed and inexhaustible information which formed its main staple and characteristic. There was a little air of affected testiness, and a tone of pretended rebuke and contradiction, with which he used to...