The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 |
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... languages , and learned to write a very elegant hand , which procured him the place of a copyist in the chancery of ... language . Two years after , Mr. Iselin of Basil , who then conducted the publication of a newspaper , engaged him ...
... languages , and learned to write a very elegant hand , which procured him the place of a copyist in the chancery of ... language . Two years after , Mr. Iselin of Basil , who then conducted the publication of a newspaper , engaged him ...
Pagina 9
... languages . His uncommon talent for mathematics now displayed itself in a most conspicuous and decided manner . Pascal's example stimu- lated him to invent an accounting machine , while the numerous occasions he had for an accurate ...
... languages . His uncommon talent for mathematics now displayed itself in a most conspicuous and decided manner . Pascal's example stimu- lated him to invent an accounting machine , while the numerous occasions he had for an accurate ...
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... language , and communicated with all the dignity and expression of chaste and animated eloquence . Order , or regularity of arrangement and symmetry constitute the foundation of beauty as much in intellectual as in material productions ...
... language , and communicated with all the dignity and expression of chaste and animated eloquence . Order , or regularity of arrangement and symmetry constitute the foundation of beauty as much in intellectual as in material productions ...
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... language and strongest figures have place here , " and conse- quently here the orator has an ample field for the display of his powers , the utmost energy of eloquence both with respect to diction and action being required . If a ...
... language and strongest figures have place here , " and conse- quently here the orator has an ample field for the display of his powers , the utmost energy of eloquence both with respect to diction and action being required . If a ...
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... languages were familiar to him . Yet his knowledge of these tongues was not gained with unwillingness , but was owing to the pleasure which he took in the study of their rudiments , a study which he often declared to be no contemptible ...
... languages were familiar to him . Yet his knowledge of these tongues was not gained with unwillingness , but was owing to the pleasure which he took in the study of their rudiments , a study which he often declared to be no contemptible ...
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