Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Its Pleasures and Rewards, Volumen 2Harper & brothers, 1855 |
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... applied himself assiduously to this object ; and he was , probably , not the only person of that age whose attention it occupied . He was , however , undoubtedly the first who succeeded in it , which he did most completely by the ...
... applied himself assiduously to this object ; and he was , probably , not the only person of that age whose attention it occupied . He was , however , undoubtedly the first who succeeded in it , which he did most completely by the ...
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... applied more generally than the one he had first employed . This consisted in at once pumping out the air itself . The principle of the contrivance which he used for that purpose will be understood from the following explanation : If we ...
... applied more generally than the one he had first employed . This consisted in at once pumping out the air itself . The principle of the contrivance which he used for that purpose will be understood from the following explanation : If we ...
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... applying which he borrowed , no doubt , from the common water - pump , in which it had been long used . valve , which , simple as it is , is one of the most useful and indeed indispensable of mechanical con- trivances , is , as most ...
... applying which he borrowed , no doubt , from the common water - pump , in which it had been long used . valve , which , simple as it is , is one of the most useful and indeed indispensable of mechanical con- trivances , is , as most ...
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... applied himself , in the first place , to the remedying of these defects in the original instrument , and succeeded in rendering it considerably more convenient and use- ful . At the time when he began to give his atten- tion to this ...
... applied himself , in the first place , to the remedying of these defects in the original instrument , and succeeded in rendering it considerably more convenient and use- ful . At the time when he began to give his atten- tion to this ...
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... down upon him the severe anger of his master , and heavy menaces intended to deter him from ever again applying himself to such dangerous studies , which , however , he did not long regard . It was at an 42 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
... down upon him the severe anger of his master , and heavy menaces intended to deter him from ever again applying himself to such dangerous studies , which , however , he did not long regard . It was at an 42 THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE .
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