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Before he had attained the age of five , he had made so considerable a
proficiency in the Latin language , that he was deemed fully competent to enter
upon Cæsar's Commentaries . This rapidity of attainment , the consequence of a
superior ...
Before he had attained the age of five , he had made so considerable a
proficiency in the Latin language , that he was deemed fully competent to enter
upon Cæsar's Commentaries . This rapidity of attainment , the consequence of a
superior ...
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and exgravity of temper and conduct , that seems to forbid . a participation in the
sports ercises congenial to the period of youth : on the contrary , he possessed all
the characteristic cheerfulness of a boy , and entered with more than common ...
and exgravity of temper and conduct , that seems to forbid . a participation in the
sports ercises congenial to the period of youth : on the contrary , he possessed all
the characteristic cheerfulness of a boy , and entered with more than common ...
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... after it had begun to grow tolerably easy to me , and willingly entered into the
service “ of the Muses , a service which preys upon my thoughts night and day
without inter« mission , more im 1 “ mission . The only satisfaction I MEMOIR OF.
... after it had begun to grow tolerably easy to me , and willingly entered into the
service “ of the Muses , a service which preys upon my thoughts night and day
without inter« mission , more im 1 “ mission . The only satisfaction I MEMOIR OF.
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Mr. A. , the gentleman to whom he alludes in the last letter as having upbraided
him for his -fickleness , in a letter to his father about the beginning of 1748 speaks
of him in the following terms : “ George has this day entered at the wri“ ting ...
Mr. A. , the gentleman to whom he alludes in the last letter as having upbraided
him for his -fickleness , in a letter to his father about the beginning of 1748 speaks
of him in the following terms : “ George has this day entered at the wri“ ting ...
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If we may judge from a catalogue of the books that he took with him to Kendal ,
among which were two editions of Euclid , s'Gravesande's Institutions , Sherwin's
Tables , & c . , he must already have entered upon the study of the mathematics .
If we may judge from a catalogue of the books that he took with him to Kendal ,
among which were two editions of Euclid , s'Gravesande's Institutions , Sherwin's
Tables , & c . , he must already have entered upon the study of the mathematics .
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| Título | Essays on Various Subjects: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, Volumen1 Essays on Various Subjects: To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, George Walker |
| Autor | George Walker |
| Editor | J. Johnson, 1809 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca de Cataluña |
| Digitalizado | 12 Feb. 2009 |
| Largo | 158 páginas |
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