Anniversary AddressesCongregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 - 517 pages |
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... called a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before . He is as great a benefactor who in an age of verbiage makes one word perform the function of two . Wonderful is the precision with which this mental ...
... called a public benefactor who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before . He is as great a benefactor who in an age of verbiage makes one word perform the function of two . Wonderful is the precision with which this mental ...
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... called , is no equivalent or substitute for precision . It is often its worst enemy . A man may mold himself to think in curves and zigzags , and not in right lines . He sends never an arrow , but a boomerang . Or he thinks in poetry ...
... called , is no equivalent or substitute for precision . It is often its worst enemy . A man may mold himself to think in curves and zigzags , and not in right lines . He sends never an arrow , but a boomerang . Or he thinks in poetry ...
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... called Christians , and those often most unrep- resentative , — at the same time appropriating to " Sci- ence " all intellectual activity whatever , though found in good Christian men , and though fostered and made irrepressible by the ...
... called Christians , and those often most unrep- resentative , — at the same time appropriating to " Sci- ence " all intellectual activity whatever , though found in good Christian men , and though fostered and made irrepressible by the ...
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... called , by Hallam , men " of extraordinary powers of discrimi- nation and argument , strengthened in the long medita- tion of their cloister by the extinction of every other talent and the exclusion of every other pursuit . Their age ...
... called , by Hallam , men " of extraordinary powers of discrimi- nation and argument , strengthened in the long medita- tion of their cloister by the extinction of every other talent and the exclusion of every other pursuit . Their age ...
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... called universal knowledge , it also empha- sizes the necessity of a scholarship that has its outlook toward all the vast provinces of reading and thought . It cannot conquer them , but it can be on treaty relations with them . The ...
... called universal knowledge , it also empha- sizes the necessity of a scholarship that has its outlook toward all the vast provinces of reading and thought . It cannot conquer them , but it can be on treaty relations with them . The ...
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