Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... language . Horn said of Goethe that everywhere in him " you are on firm land or island - nowhere the infinite sea . ” It is exactly the reverse with the bulk of our modern professors of aesthetic . To change the metaphor , and to borrow ...
... language . Horn said of Goethe that everywhere in him " you are on firm land or island - nowhere the infinite sea . ” It is exactly the reverse with the bulk of our modern professors of aesthetic . To change the metaphor , and to borrow ...
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... language is richer than ours ; it may be doubted whether any language is so rich . Colonel Hutchinson's Life by his wife 42 II BIOGRAPHY Η.
... language is richer than ours ; it may be doubted whether any language is so rich . Colonel Hutchinson's Life by his wife 42 II BIOGRAPHY Η.
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... I never wrestle with a chimney sweeper . " Or , again ( you will forgive for a moment , and not be unduly shocked by a bit of bad language ) , when on the field of Waterloo , 6 6 66 66 Lord Uxbridge , riding by the side of 52 II BIOGRAPHY.
... I never wrestle with a chimney sweeper . " Or , again ( you will forgive for a moment , and not be unduly shocked by a bit of bad language ) , when on the field of Waterloo , 6 6 66 66 Lord Uxbridge , riding by the side of 52 II BIOGRAPHY.
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... language , holding one creed , observ- ing the same rites throughout Western Europe , so , in the community of students and scholars , there was a oneness of purpose and a comradeship of speech and habit which transcended , though it ...
... language , holding one creed , observ- ing the same rites throughout Western Europe , so , in the community of students and scholars , there was a oneness of purpose and a comradeship of speech and habit which transcended , though it ...
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... language . As Hazlitt says : " By an obvious transposition of ideas some persons have confounded a knowledge of useful things with useful knowledge . " There is no fallacy which , in all its forms , a University is more bound by the ...
... language . As Hazlitt says : " By an obvious transposition of ideas some persons have confounded a knowledge of useful things with useful knowledge . " There is no fallacy which , in all its forms , a University is more bound by the ...
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