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Page 11
... or surgeon before he chiseled the David and Moses , or painted the Sistine
chapel , and how the plannings of his busy brain were always in advance of the
powers of a hand that , till the age of eightyeight , was incessantly at work .
... or surgeon before he chiseled the David and Moses , or painted the Sistine
chapel , and how the plannings of his busy brain were always in advance of the
powers of a hand that , till the age of eightyeight , was incessantly at work .
Page 13
How refreshing , on the other hand , to follow the clear unfolding of the silken
threads of thought that lie side by side , single and in knots and skeins , but never
tangled ! What a beautiful process was an investigation by Faraday in electro ...
How refreshing , on the other hand , to follow the clear unfolding of the silken
threads of thought that lie side by side , single and in knots and skeins , but never
tangled ! What a beautiful process was an investigation by Faraday in electro ...
Page 17
... on the other hand , the steady suppressio veri concerning books , systems ,
men , and events , the occasional though unintended assertio falsi , the eager
conversion of theories into facts , constructions unfair and uncandid , and ,
throughout ...
... on the other hand , the steady suppressio veri concerning books , systems ,
men , and events , the occasional though unintended assertio falsi , the eager
conversion of theories into facts , constructions unfair and uncandid , and ,
throughout ...
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What is wanted is the comprehensive hand , and not the prehensile tail . Involved
in such an equipoise is the decisiveness , the will force , that not only holds , but
holds the balance . Common as it may be it is none the less pitia . ble to be just ...
What is wanted is the comprehensive hand , and not the prehensile tail . Involved
in such an equipoise is the decisiveness , the will force , that not only holds , but
holds the balance . Common as it may be it is none the less pitia . ble to be just ...
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... Phoebus Apollo , many a savage with his hands all smeared over with human
sacrifice . . . shall sit down in the kingdom of God with Moses and Socrates , and
Zoroaster and Jesus . ” But the pagan Plutarch answered this Christian preacher
...
... Phoebus Apollo , many a savage with his hands all smeared over with human
sacrifice . . . shall sit down in the kingdom of God with Moses and Socrates , and
Zoroaster and Jesus . ” But the pagan Plutarch answered this Christian preacher
...
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