Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Its Pleasures and Rewards : in Two Volumes, Volumen 2Harper & brothers, 1860 |
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... who came to see him , was James I. , then king of Scotland , who passed a week with him in the year 1590 ; but if the story that is told be true , this visit was anything rather than a fortunate 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... who came to see him , was James I. , then king of Scotland , who passed a week with him in the year 1590 ; but if the story that is told be true , this visit was anything rather than a fortunate 20 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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... passed , recalling all the grants he had received from the former king , and dispossessing him of his island . On this , Brahe determined to bid adieu for ever to his ungrateful country ; and , taking with him all his instruments , he ...
... passed , recalling all the grants he had received from the former king , and dispossessing him of his island . On this , Brahe determined to bid adieu for ever to his ungrateful country ; and , taking with him all his instruments , he ...
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... passed through France to Geneva , where they continued some time studying rhetoric , logic , mathematics , and political geography . The party afterward set off for Italy ; and , after visiting Ven- ice and other places , proceeded to ...
... passed through France to Geneva , where they continued some time studying rhetoric , logic , mathematics , and political geography . The party afterward set off for Italy ; and , after visiting Ven- ice and other places , proceeded to ...
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... passed . Now were air , like water , possessed of little or no expansive force , this space , after being thus deprived of its contents , would have remained empty , and there would have been an end of the experiment . But in ...
... passed . Now were air , like water , possessed of little or no expansive force , this space , after being thus deprived of its contents , would have remained empty , and there would have been an end of the experiment . But in ...
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... passed away . Here , then , was one barrelful of the air in the vessel dis- lodged ; and the same process had only to be re- peated a sufficient number of times in order to ex- tract as much more as was desired . The quantity however ...
... passed away . Here , then , was one barrelful of the air in the vessel dis- lodged ; and the same process had only to be re- peated a sufficient number of times in order to ex- tract as much more as was desired . The quantity however ...
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Página 186 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Página 220 - ... hunger and nakedness to the utmost extremity of human suffering. I have known what it is to have food given me as charity to a madman ; and I have at times been obliged to shelter myself under the miseries of that character, to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose. If I live, I will faithfully perform, in its utmost extent, my engagement...
Página 219 - Before I had learnt from the note the name and business of my visitor, I was struck with the manliness of his person, the breadth of his chest, the openness of his countenance, and the inquietude of his eye.
Página 121 - That exquisitely beautiful tale, accordingly appeared in 1766 ; and soon after, was published his ' History of England,' in a series of letters from a nobleman to his son, which immediately excited great attention and became extremely popular.
Página 245 - Seathwaite and Ulpha, annexed together, would be apt to cause a general discontent among the inhabitants of both places ; by either thinking themselves slighted, being only served alternately, or neglected in the duty, or attributing it to covetousness in me ; all which occasions of murmuring I would willingly avoid.
Página 107 - Soon after he married, Robert told me, in a letter, that he had sold his fiddle, and got a wife.' Like most poor men, he got a wife first, and had to get household stuff afterward. It took him some time to get out of readyfurnished lodgings.
Página 232 - April, 1785. This being done, I then condescended to see how other people wove ; and you will guess my astonishment when I compared their easy modes of operation with mine. Availing myself, however, of what I then saw, I made a loom in its general principles nearly as they are now made. But it was not till the year 1787 that I completed my invention, when I took out my last weaving patent, August the 1st of that year.
Página 107 - 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 187 - 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 188 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chymistry 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.