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... genius expanded in an early blossom , and unseasonably ripen'd into lasting luxuriance ; or like Young and Goldsmith , his mind was long concealed , be- fore it spread its opulence and treasures to the sun ; or if unlike either of them ...
... genius expanded in an early blossom , and unseasonably ripen'd into lasting luxuriance ; or like Young and Goldsmith , his mind was long concealed , be- fore it spread its opulence and treasures to the sun ; or if unlike either of them ...
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... genius . The polite reader may re- member this sort of triumph , illustriously exemplified in the life of William Gifford , the poet ; in the life below of Lambert , the mathematician , we find all the demons of adversity success- fully ...
... genius . The polite reader may re- member this sort of triumph , illustriously exemplified in the life of William Gifford , the poet ; in the life below of Lambert , the mathematician , we find all the demons of adversity success- fully ...
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... genius . John Henry Lambert was born August 29 , 1728 , at Muhlhaus- en , a small confederate town in Sundgau . His father , whose an- cestors had emigrated from France , when the edict of Nantz was revoked , was by trade a tailor , and ...
... genius . John Henry Lambert was born August 29 , 1728 , at Muhlhaus- en , a small confederate town in Sundgau . His father , whose an- cestors had emigrated from France , when the edict of Nantz was revoked , was by trade a tailor , and ...
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... genius manifested itself particularly in the facility with which he reduced to an easy construction the results of extensive and intricate computations . It clearly appears by his cosmological letters , and his computations relative to ...
... genius manifested itself particularly in the facility with which he reduced to an easy construction the results of extensive and intricate computations . It clearly appears by his cosmological letters , and his computations relative to ...
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... genius , made him desirous of construct- ing better ones . He , therefore , resolved upon the attempt . He soon acquired the use of the file , and made himself acquaint- ed with the method of turning brass , and of grinding glasses . In ...
... genius , made him desirous of construct- ing better ones . He , therefore , resolved upon the attempt . He soon acquired the use of the file , and made himself acquaint- ed with the method of turning brass , and of grinding glasses . In ...
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 5 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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