Footsteps to Fame: A Book to Open Other BooksGroombridge, 1874 - 310 |
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... genius , is yet a most famous man . There is a kind of halo surrounding him , a mysterious glory which he has won for himself amongst his admirers by his genius , no less than by his assumption . He lived at least a century before the ...
... genius , is yet a most famous man . There is a kind of halo surrounding him , a mysterious glory which he has won for himself amongst his admirers by his genius , no less than by his assumption . He lived at least a century before the ...
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... This philosopher bears the most celebrated name in the history of all who have attempted to make their fellow - men wiser and better , and by the aid of SOCRATES . 31 his genius alone seems to have reached 30 THE GREAT THINKERS .
... This philosopher bears the most celebrated name in the history of all who have attempted to make their fellow - men wiser and better , and by the aid of SOCRATES . 31 his genius alone seems to have reached 30 THE GREAT THINKERS .
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A Book to Open Other Books James Hain Friswell. SOCRATES . 31 his genius alone seems to have reached the highest pinnacle allotted to unrevealed teachers . Born in the year 469 B.C. , of poor parents - his father was a statuary - he gave ...
A Book to Open Other Books James Hain Friswell. SOCRATES . 31 his genius alone seems to have reached the highest pinnacle allotted to unrevealed teachers . Born in the year 469 B.C. , of poor parents - his father was a statuary - he gave ...
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... Genius - Flaxman - Lady Jane Grey's love of Study - Dr . Whewell - The Warriors- Alexander - His Master , Aristotle - Alexander invades Persia- The Treatment of Darius - Arbela - The Genius of Alexander -His friend , Hephaestion - His ...
... Genius - Flaxman - Lady Jane Grey's love of Study - Dr . Whewell - The Warriors- Alexander - His Master , Aristotle - Alexander invades Persia- The Treatment of Darius - Arbela - The Genius of Alexander -His friend , Hephaestion - His ...
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... Genius itself . Sir Joshua Reynolds thought that " that excellence of art , which is expressed by genius , taste , or the gift of Heaven , " was nothing more nor less than a genius for hard work . One who has bent over his desk as many ...
... Genius itself . Sir Joshua Reynolds thought that " that excellence of art , which is expressed by genius , taste , or the gift of Heaven , " was nothing more nor less than a genius for hard work . One who has bent over his desk as many ...
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Strona 119 - Not once or twice in our rough island-story The path of duty was the way to glory. He that walks it, only thirsting For the right, and learns to deaden Love of self, before his journey closes, He shall find the stubborn thistle bursting Into glossy purples, which out-redden All voluptuous garden-roses.
Strona 92 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Strona 154 - I have had live crows, hawks, and owls ; opossums, squirrels, snakes, lizards, &c., so that my room has sometimes reminded me of Noah's ark ; but Noah had a wife in one corner of it, and, in this particular, our parallel does not altogether tally. I receive every subject of natural history that is brought to me ; and, though they do not march into my ark from all quarters, as they did into that of our great ancestor, yet I find means, by the distribution of a few fivepenny bits, to make them find...
Strona 91 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Strona 98 - Her court was pure ; her life serene ; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed In her as Mother, Wife and Queen ; " And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet, By shaping some august decree, Which kept her throne unshaken still, Broad-based upon her people's will, And compassed by the inviolate sea.
Strona 297 - It is wonderful what a very large amount of most instructive matter connected with the animal and plant world the writer has condensed into a small compass.
Strona 91 - So it being given unto him, he poised it in his hand, and felt along upon the edge of it with his thumb, to see if it was keen ; and smiling, spake unto Mr. Sheriff, saying, " This is a sharp medicine, but it will cure all diseases.
Strona 153 - I sometimes smile to think that while others are immersed in deep schemes of speculation and aggrandizement — in building towns and purchasing plantations, I am entranced in contemplation over the plumage of a lark, or gazing like a despairing lover, on the lineaments of an owl.
Strona 297 - The wonders of the sea-shore are detailed in an easy, pleasant, and lucid style." — Examiner. " The book is very attractive, and its usefulness is enhanced by its many careful illustrations.
Strona 298 - PROFITABLE GARDENING: A Practical Guide to the Culture of Vegetables, Fruits, and other useful Out-door Garden Products; Intended for the use of Amateurs, Gentlemen's Gardeners, Allottees, and Growers for Market. SHIRLEY HIBBERD, FRHS, Author of * Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste/ * The Town Garden/ * Book of the Aquarium,