Lanterna Rally

Author: George Lillie Craik

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-18

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9780243073436

Excerpt from The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties, Vol. 2 of 2: Illustrated by Anecdotes; With Portraits The emperor, this writer adds, collected the results of his experience and reading upon the subject of ship building, and formed them into a regular treatise on his art. This work, however, has not been published, al though it is probably preserved, with the other literary productions of the writer, in the Imperial Library at Petersburg. The only work, from the hand of Peter the Great, which has been printed, is his Journal, from 1698 to the peace of Neustadt, in 1721. Of this document, which is almost entirely occupied with military transac tions, a French translation, by M. Formey, was publish ed at Berlin, in 177 3, in one volume, quarto. Peter died in 1725, in the fifty-third year of his age. His history presents us with, perhaps, as remarkable a case of the conquest of difficulties, in the pursuit of knowledge, as it would be possible to quote. In his noble resolution to educate not only himself but his country, he had to contend with obstacles, at every step, which noth ing could have overcome, but that determination to suc oecd which overcomes all things. Few monarchs have better deserved the epithet of Great, if he is to be appre ciated either by the great powers of mind he displayed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.