THE LIBRARY OF ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE. THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE UNDER DIFFICULTIES; ILLUSTRATED BY ANECDOTES. BOSTON: LILLY AND WAIT (LATE WELLS AND LILLY) AND G & C. & H. Carvill, and E. Bliss, New-York; Carey & Hart, Phila- CONTENTS. Amusement in the Pursuit of Knowledge; Pursuit of Knowledge by Persons of rank or wealth: Democritus; Anaxagoras; Nicephorus Alphery; Marcus Aurelius; Other Individuals of rank distinguished in Literature and Foreign Painters: - Giotto; Greuze; Ehret; Solario. - Usefulness of such encouragements as the examples here given are calculated to afford to youthful genius in every Professors of Optical Discovery: - Dollond; Ramsden; Pursuit of Knowledge by Travellers. Lithgow; Walk- |