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" He was bred to the law, which is, in my opinion, one of the first and noblest of human sciences ; a science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons... "
Conversations on the elements of metaphysics, tr. by R. Pennell - Page 119
by Claude Buffier - 1838 - 200 pages
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 22

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1863 - 878 pages
...science which docs more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all the other kinds of learning put together, but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion "* Nor can you have failed to note what he said...
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The Criterion: Or, The Test of Talk about Familiar Things

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1866 - 388 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all other kinds oo of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion." Why is the poet's function the noblest ? Because...
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The collector: essays on books, newspapers [&c.].

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 384 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.' Why is the poet's function the noblest? Because...
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The Collector: Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors ...

Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 382 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate, the understanding than all other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion.' Why is the poet's function the noblest? Because...
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Commentaries on the Laws of England, Volume 1

Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - 1869 - 890 pages
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The Annual Register

Minnesota. University - 1871 - 84 pages
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Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America ..., Volume 1

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 pages
...and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together," he thought it " not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open...liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportion." Indifferent health also came in the way of any great exertions in the study of the profession. We hear...
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An Address, Delivered in the New Court House, in Springfield, Hampden County ...

William Gelston Bates - 1874 - 112 pages
...more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all other kinds of learning put together ; but is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportions." We are far from supposing that either blood or...
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An Address, Delivered in the New Court House, in Springfield, Hampden County ...

William Gelston Bates - 1874 - 114 pages
...more to quicken and invigorate the understanding, than all other kinds of learning put together ; but is not apt, except in persons very happily born, to open and liberalize the mind exactly in the same proportions." We are far from supposing that either blood or...
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Materials and Models for Latin Prose Composition

John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 418 pages
...science which does more to quicken and invigorate the understanding than all the other kinds of learning put together ; but it is not apt, except in persons...proportion. Passing from that study, he did not go jery largely into the world, but plunged into business, I mean into the business of office, and the...
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