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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE JESUlTS, Ac. It has often been a subject of remark, how trivial, insignificant, and, in ordinary phraseology accidental incidents, have fixed the character and career of individuals, extended the empire of the sciences, and permanently affected the destinies of nations. To the circumstance of his being presented, when a student at college with the works of Pliny and Aristotle, as a prize, did Adanson, as we are told, owe the impulse which diverted his mind from its original bent, and earned for him the renown of being one of the most distinguished naturalists of his day. To the circumstance of his happening, when a boy, to be long and frequently shut up in a room, in which there was nothing but a clock, which, therefore, as the only object of amusement, he occupied himself in examining?did Vancanson owe the impulse which eventually rendered him one of the most celebrated of mechanicians. It was the circumstance of perusing the Iliad that communicated to the soul of Alexander the impulse which led to his heading the Macedonian phalanx on the banks of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the Indus; while it was the perusal of his life which stimulated Charles of Sweden to a areer that stamped him as among the first of warriors. To the circumstance of his noticing the fall of an apple is ordinarily attributed the hint which pointed the way to the most magnificent of modern discoveries, and has emblazoned the name of Newton as the most refulgent in the whole galaxy of science. To a most trivial and apparently accidental circumstance did Scotland, once trodden under the iron hoof of tyranny, owe its freedom and independence. The patriot Bruce, successively baffled in every attempt, lay down at night in a barn, seeking relief from the pains of disaster and the threatenings of despair....
| ISBN-13 | 9780217352758 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217352758 |
| Weight | 0.23 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.15 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 62 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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