The Steady Aim: a Book of Examples and Encouragements from Modern Biography. IllustratedJ. Hogg & Sons, 1863 - 267 стор. |
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... produce few scholars , but a host of elaborate little dunces ! The error of our boyhood , however , becomes the curse of our manhood . Unable to select any special vocation as that for which they have been fitted by a special training ...
... produce few scholars , but a host of elaborate little dunces ! The error of our boyhood , however , becomes the curse of our manhood . Unable to select any special vocation as that for which they have been fitted by a special training ...
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... produces a sensa- tion at Rome ; his originality of criticism- 9. His portrait of Mr. Robinson 10. Establishes himself in England ; his picture of the death of General Wolfe ' - 11 . His industry ; concluding remarks ; Goldsmith quoted ...
... produces a sensa- tion at Rome ; his originality of criticism- 9. His portrait of Mr. Robinson 10. Establishes himself in England ; his picture of the death of General Wolfe ' - 11 . His industry ; concluding remarks ; Goldsmith quoted ...
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... produced . He estimated it as 1 to 2,000 - no very import- ant miscalculation , even when compared with the more definite result obtained by later enquirers ( 1 to 1,750 ) . 6. Denys Papin , a native of Blois , who came to reside in ...
... produced . He estimated it as 1 to 2,000 - no very import- ant miscalculation , even when compared with the more definite result obtained by later enquirers ( 1 to 1,750 ) . 6. Denys Papin , a native of Blois , who came to reside in ...
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... produce the vacuum in the cylinder , and the pressure upon the piston was furnished by the atmosphere : a pressure which , with the most perfect mechanical contrivances , does not exceed 15 lbs . to every square inch . Nevertheless ...
... produce the vacuum in the cylinder , and the pressure upon the piston was furnished by the atmosphere : a pressure which , with the most perfect mechanical contrivances , does not exceed 15 lbs . to every square inch . Nevertheless ...
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... produced so large a yearly income that , in 1801 , he was happily enabled to retire from any active participation in the business of the firm . His name was honoured throughout the civilised world . France had her Napoleon ; but Eng ...
... produced so large a yearly income that , in 1801 , he was happily enabled to retire from any active participation in the business of the firm . His name was honoured throughout the civilised world . France had her Napoleon ; but Eng ...
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Сторінка 239 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Сторінка 110 - Who, whether praise of him must walk the earth For ever, and to noble deeds give birth, Or he must fall to sleep without his fame, And leave a dead unprofitable name, Finds comfort in himself and in his cause; And, while the mortal mist is gathering, draws His breath in confidence of Heaven's applause: This is the happy Warrior; this is he Whom every Man in arms should wish to be.
Сторінка 164 - Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken — The ice was all between. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!
Сторінка 61 - It was no uncommon thing for a weaver to walk three or four miles in a morning, and call on five or six spinners, before he could collect weft to serve him for the remainder of the day ; and when he wished to weave a piece in a shorter time than usual, a new ribbon, or gown, was necessary to quicken the exertions of the spinner.
Сторінка 155 - ... it was no light thing to engage an army twenty times as numerous as his own. Before him lay a river over which it was easy to advance, but over which, if things went ill, not one of his little band would ever return. On this occasion, for the first and for the last time, his dauntless spirit, during a few hours, shrank from the fearful responsibility of making a decision. He called a council of war. The majority pronounced against fighting ; and Clive declared his concurrence with the majority....
Сторінка 225 - YE vales and hills whose beauty hither drew The poet's steps, and fixed him here, on you His eyes have closed ! And ye, lov'd books, no more Shall Southey feed upon your precious lore, To works that ne'er shall forfeit their renown, Adding immortal labours of his own — Whether he traced historic truth, with zeal For the state's guidance, or the church's weal, Or fancy, disciplined by studious art...
Сторінка 17 - ... exhausting : such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the...
Сторінка 217 - But do not suppose that I disparage the gift which you possess ; nor that I would discourage you from exercising it. I only exhort you so to think of it, and so to use it, as to render it conducive to your own permanent good. Write poetry for its own sake; not in a spirit of emulation, and not with a view to celebrity : the less you aim at that, the more likely you will be to deserve, and finally to obtain it.
Сторінка 238 - Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselves, as he loves us better too. Pater ipse colendi hand facilem esse viam voluit. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Сторінка 259 - My desire to escape from trade, which I thought vicious and selfish, and to enter into the service of Science, which I imagined made its pursuers amiable and liberal, induced me at last to take the bold and simple step of writing to Sir H. Davy...