Essays, First SeriesJohn B. Alden, 1886 - 343 pages |
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Page 8
... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained ...
... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained ...
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... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained ...
... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained ...
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... light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for char- ity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remarkable that ...
... light of all our day , the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for char- ity ; the foundation of friendship and love and of the heroism and grandeur which belong to acts of self - reliance . It is remarkable that ...
Page 13
... lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his own life the text , and books the commentary . Thus ...
... lights of the fir- mament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively and not passively ; to esteem his own life the text , and books the commentary . Thus ...
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... light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my com- panion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over ...
... light and of the world . I remember one summer day in the fields my com- panion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted over ...
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