
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), pp. 57–58
The Autobiography of Mark Twain (1959 edition, edited by Charles Neider).
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (2015), pp. 57–58
William Hazlitt Lectures on the English Poets (Philadelphia: Thomas Dobson, 1818) p. 243.
Criticism
"Lincoln and the Priests of Academe"
1990s, United States - Essays 1952-1992 (1992)
1860s, On The Choice Of Books (1866)
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Dialogues and Mathematical Demonstrations Concerning Two New Sciences (1638)
Context: My purpose is to set forth a very new science dealing with a very ancient subject. There is, in nature, perhaps nothing older than motion, concerning which the books written by philosophers are neither few nor small; nevertheless I have discovered by experiment some properties of it which are worth knowing and which have not hitherto been either observed or demonstrated. Some superficial observations have been made, as, for instance, that the free motion [naturalem motum] of a heavy falling body is continuously accelerated; but to just what extent this acceleration occurs has not yet been announced; for so far as I know, no one has yet pointed out that the distances traversed, during equal intervals of time, by a body falling from rest, stand to one another in the same ratio as the odd numbers beginning with unity.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 183.
Source: 1880s, Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War (1885), p. 317
1990s, An Exchange With a Civil War Historian (June 1995)
Ich besitze von ihm eine seiner Sinfonien, die ich zur Erinnerung an eines der größten Genies, die ich gekannt habe, aufbewahre. Ich habe von ihm nur dieses einzige Werk, weiß aber, dass er noch anderes Vortreffliches geschrieben hat.