Perseverance Under Difficulties, as Shown in the Lives of Great MenSociety for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1862 - 294 pages |
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... arrive at India . Anxious to carry out this great idea , and aware of the benefit such a route would be to Portugal , Prince Henry established a naval college , and collected all the geographical and astronomical information of the time ...
... arrive at India . Anxious to carry out this great idea , and aware of the benefit such a route would be to Portugal , Prince Henry established a naval college , and collected all the geographical and astronomical information of the time ...
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... arrive at the eastern coast of Asia , or India , as he termed it , and thus reach those rich countries explored by Marco Polo . Columbus agreed in the received opinion that the earth was round ; but he be- lieved that its circumference ...
... arrive at the eastern coast of Asia , or India , as he termed it , and thus reach those rich countries explored by Marco Polo . Columbus agreed in the received opinion that the earth was round ; but he be- lieved that its circumference ...
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... arrived . He laid his project of discovery before the king , and proposed to sail across the Atlantic Ocean to India . His plan was listened to with attention by John , who perceived the advantage that such a route would be to Portugal ...
... arrived . He laid his project of discovery before the king , and proposed to sail across the Atlantic Ocean to India . His plan was listened to with attention by John , who perceived the advantage that such a route would be to Portugal ...
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... arrived at Cordova , where they were residing , he found it impossible to obtain even a hearing . His letter of recommendation to the confessor proved of little use , for the latter would have nothing to say to him , and no one gave ear ...
... arrived at Cordova , where they were residing , he found it impossible to obtain even a hearing . His letter of recommendation to the confessor proved of little use , for the latter would have nothing to say to him , and no one gave ear ...
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... arrived at court . It was a favourable moment for him . The town of Granada , the chief city of the Moors , had just surrendered , and Boabdil , the last of the Moorish kings , had yielded up the keys of the magnificent palace of the ...
... arrived at court . It was a favourable moment for him . The town of Granada , the chief city of the Moors , had just surrendered , and Boabdil , the last of the Moorish kings , had yielded up the keys of the magnificent palace of the ...
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Page 91 - How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting, that The sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Page 39 - Indians, painted according to their savage fashion, and decorated with their national ornaments of gold; after these were borne various kinds of live parrots, together with stuffed birds and animals of unknown species, and rare plants supposed to be of precious qualities; while great care was taken to make a conspicuous display of Indian coronets, bracelets, and other decorations of gold, which might give an idea of the wealth of the newly discovered regions.
Page 91 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night ; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him. Drive thy business, let not that drive thee; and early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise,
Page 92 - An acquaintance, who was also learning it, used often to tempt me to play chess with him. Finding this took up too much of the time I had to spare for study, I at length...
Page 221 - It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation, with him had been that which he had been last occupied in studying and 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...
Page 85 - American, as they called me, was stronger than themselves, who drank strong beer! We had an alehouse boy, who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with...
Page 221 - That he should have been minutely and extensively skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured ; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law.
Page 87 - I composed a sheet a day, and Meredith worked it off at press ; it was often eleven at night, and sometimes later, before I had finished my distribution for the next day's work, for the little jobs sent in by our other friends now and then put us back.
Page 110 - The best in the world. They submitted willingly to the government of the Crown, and paid, in all their courts, obedience to acts of parliament. Numerous as the people are in the several old provinces, they cost you nothing in forts, citadels, garrisons or armies, to keep them in subjection. They were governed by this country at the expence only of a little pen, ink and paper.
Page 80 - I discovered it, when I began to be considered a little more by my brother's acquaintance, and in a manner that did not quite please him, as he thought, probably with reason, that it tended to make me too vain.