The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

George L. Craik

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1331395143 ISBN 13 : 9781331395140

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties

Artists rising from the Lower to the Higher Branches: Benvenuto Cellini Quintin Matsys - Ibbetson Kent - Towne Kirby Schiavoni - Hogarth - Sharp - Thew - Caslon. Late Learners.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; and it was reproduced in another form, under my own care, in 1845. The revision which it underwent on that occasion, however, extended only to such statements as were affected by the lapse of time. Appearing now with the name of the writer, it is restored throughout more nearly to the state in which it first left my hands; and I have also taken the opportunity of introducing a few additional notices of eminent individuals, some of them still living, who have distinguished themselves by one form or another of what may be called the Pursuit of Knowledge under Difficulties. Of that happy title, however, which has had the fortune to become a sort of proverbial phrase, or household word, and to which the book, no doubt, owes much of whatever success it has had, I ought to say that I cannot claim the credit; it belongs, I have always understood, to Lord BROUGHAM, who, finding time for everything, honoured the little work by going over the proof-sheets, at least of the first volume, and some other touches of whose expressive pen, it may interest the reader to know, are elsewhere to be found in it; although I would not have his Lordship, or any one but myself, to be held responsible for either its statements as to matters of fact, or any indications of opinion on controverted questions ;of which last, however, there are really none, I believe, that can give pain or offence to anyboory. G. L. C. By the kind permission of Mr. CHARLES KNIGHT, ive are enabled to print the following extract from his Passages of a Working Life (vol. ii., p. 133), giving a detailed account of the origin of this volume: It was not only in the meetings of our committees that I had the advantage for my editorial guidance of the opinions of men of accurate minds and sound information ;but I was frequently also in correspondence with those who took
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331395143
• ISBN 13: 9781331395140
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 629
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