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On the Classical Tongues and the Advantages of Their Study: An Inaugural ... - Page 14
by Isaac William Stuart - 1836 - 23 pages
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1903 - 428 pages
...discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science. "If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he...all professions are from thence served and supplied ; and this I take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these...
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A History of Education

Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1904 - 442 pages
...into the error described in the ancient fable, in which the other parts of the body did suppose the stomach had been idle, because it neither performed...all professions are from thence served and supplied. And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental...
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John Amos Comenius, Bishop of the Moravians: His Life and Educational Works

Simon Somerville Laurie - 1904 - 298 pages
...sense, as the head doth : but yet notwithstanding it is the stomach that digesteth and distributed to all the rest. So if any man think philosophy and...all professions are from thence served and supplied. And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental...
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Biographia Philosophica: A Retrospect

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1904 - 398 pages
...notwithstanding, it is the stomach that digesteth and distributeth to all the rest. So that if any man thinks Philosophy and Universality to be idle studies, he...professions are from thence served and supplied." p CHAPTER VII. ACADEMICAL VACATIONS. 1S56-1S90. "To spend too much time in studies is sloth." —BACON....
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

1905 - 958 pages
...into the error described in the ancient fable ; in which the other parts of the body did suppose the And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental...
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Studies in the History of Educational Opinion from the Renaissance

Simon Somerville Laurie - 1905 - 284 pages
...into the error described in the ancient fable, in which the other parts of the body did suppose the stomach had been idle, because it neither performed...all professions are from thence served and supplied. And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental...
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The Grammar of Philosophy: A Study of Scientific Method

David Graham - 1908 - 410 pages
...called it " the knowledge of things existing"; Bacon, " the interpretation of Nature." If, says he, " any man think Philosophy and Universality to be idle...he doth not consider that all professions are from them, served and supplied"; l and in his Apophthegms, he quotas with approbation the saying of Aristippus...
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The Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson ... Fireside Edition, Volume 5

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 314 pages
...discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science. " If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he...all professions are from thence served and supplied ; and this I take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these...
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The Harvard Classics, Volume 5

1909 - 540 pages
...discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science. " If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he...all professions are from thence served and supplied, and this I take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental...
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Essays and English Traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1909 - 496 pages
...discovery can be made in a flat or level, but you must ascend to a higher science. "If any man thinketh philosophy and universality to be idle studies, he...all professions are from thence served and supplied, and this I take to be a great cause that has hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental...
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