Extracts from Various Authors, and Fragments of Table-talk: Afternoons at L******** ...E.B. Gardner, 1873 - 150 pages |
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... of a book when they know that it is accounted a good one , and what is its subject ; ) never grasping at great numbers and variety , but taking up what we are assured , by competent advisers or by a partial examination 20 Education .
... of a book when they know that it is accounted a good one , and what is its subject ; ) never grasping at great numbers and variety , but taking up what we are assured , by competent advisers or by a partial examination 20 Education .
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... examination , is , on the whole , good and valuable , and then to read through what we have chosen , carefully and perhaps even repeatedly . It is often of very great use to know where to find matter suited to a particular occasion , or ...
... examination , is , on the whole , good and valuable , and then to read through what we have chosen , carefully and perhaps even repeatedly . It is often of very great use to know where to find matter suited to a particular occasion , or ...
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... examinations . Two men of equal capacity come up at the same time : the one produces what knowledge he has , although it be the less , at once ; the other does not . He can bring it to - morrow , but not to - day ; or he could write a ...
... examinations . Two men of equal capacity come up at the same time : the one produces what knowledge he has , although it be the less , at once ; the other does not . He can bring it to - morrow , but not to - day ; or he could write a ...
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... examination rooms . - SIR JAMES PAGET , Address at Leeds ; Medical Times and Gazette , October 1865 . One other claim I must make on behalf of the system of examinations . It is easy to point out their inherent imperfections . Plenty of ...
... examination rooms . - SIR JAMES PAGET , Address at Leeds ; Medical Times and Gazette , October 1865 . One other claim I must make on behalf of the system of examinations . It is easy to point out their inherent imperfections . Plenty of ...
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... examinations , which , more perhaps than any other instrument , may teach him how to make them . - GLADSTONE , Speech at Liverpool ; Morning Post , December 1872 . One essential for this quality , ( presence of mind , ) however acquired ...
... examinations , which , more perhaps than any other instrument , may teach him how to make them . - GLADSTONE , Speech at Liverpool ; Morning Post , December 1872 . One essential for this quality , ( presence of mind , ) however acquired ...
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