Occasional Addresses, 1893-1916Macmillan, 1918 - 194 pages |
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... Philosophical Institution , November 15 , 1901 . III . ANCIENT UNIVERSITIES AND THE MODERN WORLD Rectorial Address delivered before the University of Glasgow , January 11 , 1907 . 57 IV . CULTURE AND CHARACTER 83 Rectorial Address ...
... Philosophical Institution , November 15 , 1901 . III . ANCIENT UNIVERSITIES AND THE MODERN WORLD Rectorial Address delivered before the University of Glasgow , January 11 , 1907 . 57 IV . CULTURE AND CHARACTER 83 Rectorial Address ...
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... philosophical historian . The wind blows where and when it lists , and no formula of heredity or of adaptation will account for the appearance at a particular time and place of a Dante or a Shakespeare . But the most conspicuous eras of ...
... philosophical historian . The wind blows where and when it lists , and no formula of heredity or of adaptation will account for the appearance at a particular time and place of a Dante or a Shakespeare . But the most conspicuous eras of ...
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... philosophy . There is no emptier fallacy than to suppose that criticism is merely a form of intel- lectual gymnastic - the appropriate pastime of epochs of torpor and stagnation - the business of second - rate minds in the relatively ...
... philosophy . There is no emptier fallacy than to suppose that criticism is merely a form of intel- lectual gymnastic - the appropriate pastime of epochs of torpor and stagnation - the business of second - rate minds in the relatively ...
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... philosophy , the life of action , immersed in matter , tinctured with pas- sion , at its best but a halting compromise between the pure energies of reason and the more or less squalid exigencies of social co - operation , was always ...
... philosophy , the life of action , immersed in matter , tinctured with pas- sion , at its best but a halting compromise between the pure energies of reason and the more or less squalid exigencies of social co - operation , was always ...
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Herbert Henry Asquith. II BIOGRAPHY II BIOGRAPHY1 To the lover of books there are few 27 BIOGRAPHY An Address delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, November 15, 1901.
Herbert Henry Asquith. II BIOGRAPHY II BIOGRAPHY1 To the lover of books there are few 27 BIOGRAPHY An Address delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, November 15, 1901.
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