Harry and Lucy Concluded;: Being the Last Part of Early Lessons, المجلدات 3-4R. Hunter, 72, St. Paul's Churchyard; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 47, Paternoster Row, 1825 - 336 من الصفحات |
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... knowledge , is not , as I think , to perfect a learner in all or any one of the sciences ; but to give his mind that disposition , and those habits , that may enable him to attain any part of knowledge he shall stand in need of in the ...
... knowledge , is not , as I think , to perfect a learner in all or any one of the sciences ; but to give his mind that disposition , and those habits , that may enable him to attain any part of knowledge he shall stand in need of in the ...
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... knowledge he could upon one subject . His father said , it was of little consequence to which science he first turned his attention ; the same thirst for knowledge , when satisfied on one point , would turn to new objects . The boy ...
... knowledge he could upon one subject . His father said , it was of little consequence to which science he first turned his attention ; the same thirst for knowledge , when satisfied on one point , would turn to new objects . The boy ...
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... nicely smoothed with the back of the spade . When the dam was again opened , the canal was tight and firm to admiration , and Harry felt not only the pleasure of successful labour , but the satisfaction of having ac- quired knowledge 22.
... nicely smoothed with the back of the spade . When the dam was again opened , the canal was tight and firm to admiration , and Harry felt not only the pleasure of successful labour , but the satisfaction of having ac- quired knowledge 22.
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... knowledge in every step he took . Lucy stood by to witness and admire this operation , in which proper female consideration for her shoes and petti- coats forbade her to join ; but female sympathy is often agreeable , in circum- stances ...
... knowledge in every step he took . Lucy stood by to witness and admire this operation , in which proper female consideration for her shoes and petti- coats forbade her to join ; but female sympathy is often agreeable , in circum- stances ...
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... thing leads to another , and how one bit of knowledge , sometimes in the oddest way , helps us on to another that seems to have nothing to do with it . And , Harry , think of your explaining this French expression to 26.
... thing leads to another , and how one bit of knowledge , sometimes in the oddest way , helps us on to another that seems to have nothing to do with it . And , Harry , think of your explaining this French expression to 26.
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الصفحة 140 - So pleas'd at first the tow'ring Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
الصفحة 140 - In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. While from the bounded level of our mind Short views we take, nor see the lengths behind; But more advanced, behold with strange surprise New distant scenes of endless science rise!
الصفحة 249 - I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.
الصفحة 42 - When it is perfectly formed, the shell gapeth open, and the first thing that appeareth is the foresaid lace or string ; next come the legs of the bird hanging out, and as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea...
الصفحة 96 - For two hundred years his definition of a network as "any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections
الصفحة 199 - O'erturning her presumptuous plan, Up climbs the old usurper — man, And she jogs after as she can.
الصفحة 43 - Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose, which place aforesaid, and all those parts adjoining, do so much abound therewith, that one of the best is bought for threepence. For the truth hereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repair unto me, and I shall satisfie them by the testimonie of good witnesses*.
الصفحة 41 - Herbal," giving an account of the miraculous origin of the Solan Goose. It runs : " But what our eyes have seen and hands have touched we shall declare.
الصفحة 22 - Leyden, of much eminence, said that "he felt himself struck in his arms, shoulders, and breast, so that he lost his breath ; and it was two days before he recovered from the effects of the blow and the terror ; adding, that he would not take a second shock for the kingdom of France.
الصفحة 172 - Peacock kept up his progenitors' quarrel, Which Esop relates, about cast-off apparel; For Birds are like Men in their contests together, And, in questions of right, can dispute for a feather.