Essays, Volume 1Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1905 - 354 pages |
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Page 5
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History ...
... means of the wall of that rule . Somewhere , sometime , it will demand and find compensation for that loss by doing the work itself . Ferguson discovered many things in astronomy which had long been known . The better for him . History ...
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... means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal ...
... means the impossibility of drinking the waters of thought which are always gleaming and waving within sight of the soul . The transmigration of souls is no fable . I would it were ; but men and women are only half human . Every animal ...
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... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet un- conquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all con- form to it , so that one babe ...
... means opposed to our purpose , these have not . Their mind being whole , their eye is as yet un- conquered , and when we look in their faces , we are disconcerted . Infancy conforms to nobody : all con- form to it , so that one babe ...
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... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . I What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
... mean as my gifts may be , I actually am , and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony . I What I must do is all that concerns me , not what the people think . This rule , equally arduous ...
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... mean ' the foolish face of praise , ' the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spon- taneously moved , but moved by a low usurping ...
... mean ' the foolish face of praise , ' the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us . The muscles , not spon- taneously moved , but moved by a low usurping ...
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