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... genius , nor of perseverance , nor even of perseverance in the pursuit of knowledge , because it is not the success of the effort , at least in a gross and worldly sense , we would point attention to ; nor is it by any means what is ...
... genius , nor of perseverance , nor even of perseverance in the pursuit of knowledge , because it is not the success of the effort , at least in a gross and worldly sense , we would point attention to ; nor is it by any means what is ...
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... Genius in every Department of Study . Self - educated Poets : -John Taylor ; Antonio Bianchi ; Ramsay ; Bloomfield . CHAPTER XXXIV . H. K. White ; Hawkesworth ; Goldsmith ; Mendelsohn CHAPTER XXXV . John of Salisbury ; Roger Bacon ...
... Genius in every Department of Study . Self - educated Poets : -John Taylor ; Antonio Bianchi ; Ramsay ; Bloomfield . CHAPTER XXXIV . H. K. White ; Hawkesworth ; Goldsmith ; Mendelsohn CHAPTER XXXV . John of Salisbury ; Roger Bacon ...
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... genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philo- sophy , of such common occurrences as , from their very commonness , had escaped the attention of all less active and original minds . We are not now ...
... genius , have availed themselves , for the enlargement of the boundaries of philo- sophy , of such common occurrences as , from their very commonness , had escaped the attention of all less active and original minds . We are not now ...
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... genius , assimilated with the substance of his thoughts . The existence of gravitation , or a tendency to fall towards the centre of the earth , was already known , as affecting all bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet : and ...
... genius , assimilated with the substance of his thoughts . The existence of gravitation , or a tendency to fall towards the centre of the earth , was already known , as affecting all bodies in the immediate vicinity of our planet : and ...
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... genius , who , upon hearing of Torricelli's experi- ment , first made the remark , that the inference which he had deduced from it might , if true , be confirmed beyond the possibility of dispute , by carrying the mercurial tube to a ...
... genius , who , upon hearing of Torricelli's experi- ment , first made the remark , that the inference which he had deduced from it might , if true , be confirmed beyond the possibility of dispute , by carrying the mercurial tube to a ...
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