Extracts from Various Authors, and Fragments of Table-talk: Afternoons at L******** ...E.B. Gardner, 1873 - 150 pages |
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... desire to learn the truth , and do this to the best of his ability , not con- sidering whether the result will be agreeable and convenient , or otherwise . Not only is this the surest foundation of the moral virtues , but without it the ...
... desire to learn the truth , and do this to the best of his ability , not con- sidering whether the result will be agreeable and convenient , or otherwise . Not only is this the surest foundation of the moral virtues , but without it the ...
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... desire to know , yet all do not equally like to learn . RICHARD DE BURY , BISHOP OF DURHAM , Philobiblon . No question our school education might be modified with advantage ; but there is a fitness in things , and we should be careful ...
... desire to know , yet all do not equally like to learn . RICHARD DE BURY , BISHOP OF DURHAM , Philobiblon . No question our school education might be modified with advantage ; but there is a fitness in things , and we should be careful ...
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... desires and aims of the Colonists must be in a great measure bounded by material wants and necessities . The struggle is more for the body than the mind ; and all that may rouse and animate the latter must be wholly subordinate to mere ...
... desires and aims of the Colonists must be in a great measure bounded by material wants and necessities . The struggle is more for the body than the mind ; and all that may rouse and animate the latter must be wholly subordinate to mere ...
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... desire . But other causes may be found in the history of the Medical Profession , which was an Art in the worst sense of the word , before it became a Science , and long after it pretended to be a Science was little better than a Craft ...
... desire . But other causes may be found in the history of the Medical Profession , which was an Art in the worst sense of the word , before it became a Science , and long after it pretended to be a Science was little better than a Craft ...
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... desires to smoothe the bed of death ; but unreflecting feeling , - worse than the want of it in the result , turns it often to a bed of thorns . Quarterly Review , vol . lxxxv . He that stays by his friend to the last minute , if he ...
... desires to smoothe the bed of death ; but unreflecting feeling , - worse than the want of it in the result , turns it often to a bed of thorns . Quarterly Review , vol . lxxxv . He that stays by his friend to the last minute , if he ...
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