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... lecturer . Child of an age that lectures , not creates , said Lowell of himself , ruefully . But lecturing may be made so much of a fine art that it may almost be said to be itself creative . It was so in Fiske's hands . For mastery of ...
... lecturer . Child of an age that lectures , not creates , said Lowell of himself , ruefully . But lecturing may be made so much of a fine art that it may almost be said to be itself creative . It was so in Fiske's hands . For mastery of ...
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... Lecturer on the History of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania . This brochure , which is a reprint from the Philadelphia Medical Journal , was an address delivered before the Contemporary Club of Philadelphia . In colonial days ...
... Lecturer on the History of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania . This brochure , which is a reprint from the Philadelphia Medical Journal , was an address delivered before the Contemporary Club of Philadelphia . In colonial days ...
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... lectures at all . Moreover , what was still more serious , there existed at that period practically nothing in the way of collections or other educational materials for natural history study , since the few curiosities that ROBERG ...
... lectures at all . Moreover , what was still more serious , there existed at that period practically nothing in the way of collections or other educational materials for natural history study , since the few curiosities that ROBERG ...
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... lectures on the Birds of Sweden , and ARTEDI was then among his auditors . From the above - related facts it will be ... lecture on Botany , either private or public " . In spite of these untoward circum- stances ARTEDI applied himself ...
... lectures on the Birds of Sweden , and ARTEDI was then among his auditors . From the above - related facts it will be ... lecture on Botany , either private or public " . In spite of these untoward circum- stances ARTEDI applied himself ...
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... lecture - room , could fail to accord him the distinction of being a very great and learned man . " The above quotations , it should be remembered , are from the pen of the man who was best qualified to form an estimate of ARTEDI , both ...
... lecture - room , could fail to accord him the distinction of being a very great and learned man . " The above quotations , it should be remembered , are from the pen of the man who was best qualified to form an estimate of ARTEDI , both ...
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Page 12 - I happened soon after to attend one of his sermons, in the course of which I perceived he intended to finish with a collection, and I silently resolved he should get nothing from me. I had in my pocket a handful of copper money, three or four silver dollars, and five pistoles in gold. As he proceeded I began to soften, and concluded to give the copper. Another stroke of his oratory made me ashamed of that, and determined me to give the silver ; and he finished so admirably, that I emptied my pocket...
Page 8 - I met a boy with bread. I had made many a meal on bread, and, inquiring where he got it, I went immediately to the baker's he directed me to, in...
Page 8 - Brownell, very successful in his profession generally, and that by mild, encouraging methods. Under him I acquired fair writing pretty soon, but I failed in the arithmetic, and made no progress in it. At ten years old...
Page 8 - I have been the more particular in this description of my journey, and shall be so of my first entry into that city, that you may in your mind compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. I was in my working dress, my best clothes being to come round by sea.
Page 10 - Seest thou a man diligent in his calling, he shall stand before kings, he shall not stand before mean men...
Page 8 - ... same import, but of different length, to suit the measure, or of different sound for the rhyme, would have laid me under a constant necessity of searching for variety, and also have tended to fix that variety in my mind, and make me master of it. Therefore I took some of the tales and turned them into verse; and, after a time, when I had pretty well forgotten the prose, turned them back again.