The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties. Illustrated by Anecdotes, Том 2Nattali and Bond, 1860 |
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... took advantage of their stewardship to embezzle or squan- der them . Doubtless no one of the celebrated per- sons we have enumerated would have thrown away his patrimony , if he could have retained it with as little inconvenience as ...
... took advantage of their stewardship to embezzle or squan- der them . Doubtless no one of the celebrated per- sons we have enumerated would have thrown away his patrimony , if he could have retained it with as little inconvenience as ...
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... took place at last , his singular fortunes had been so much forgotten by all the world that nobody has recorded the date of the event . We read nothing of any remarkable acquirements in literature made by this individual ; but if modera ...
... took place at last , his singular fortunes had been so much forgotten by all the world that nobody has recorded the date of the event . We read nothing of any remarkable acquirements in literature made by this individual ; but if modera ...
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... took to philosophy , or pedantry , as a refuge from insignificance ; some had caught the love and the habit of study before they had mounted a throne , or had dreamed of mounting one ; above all , most , if not all of them , had been ...
... took to philosophy , or pedantry , as a refuge from insignificance ; some had caught the love and the habit of study before they had mounted a throne , or had dreamed of mounting one ; above all , most , if not all of them , had been ...
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... took place in the flax - yard at Ishmaeloff , an old seat of the royal family near Moscow . The writer gives us also an account of a great naval show , at which he was himself present , in honour of this celebrated But the most ...
... took place in the flax - yard at Ishmaeloff , an old seat of the royal family near Moscow . The writer gives us also an account of a great naval show , at which he was himself present , in honour of this celebrated But the most ...
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... took place by the emperor's command at St. Peters- burg , on the 12th of August , 1723. On this occasion the sloop , or ship's boat , as it is here called , having been repaired and beau- tified , was received by about 200 yachts , and ...
... took place by the emperor's command at St. Peters- burg , on the 12th of August , 1723. On this occasion the sloop , or ship's boat , as it is here called , having been repaired and beau- tified , was received by about 200 yachts , and ...
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