Anniversary AddressesCongregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 - 517 pages |
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Page 18
... knowledge and thought , as the gymnastic for all other spheres and toils . At Oxford , not long ago , four years were spent in mastering some fourteen books . What- ever may be our criticism of the process , we may not deny its singular ...
... knowledge and thought , as the gymnastic for all other spheres and toils . At Oxford , not long ago , four years were spent in mastering some fourteen books . What- ever may be our criticism of the process , we may not deny its singular ...
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... knowledge that cannot be overlooked . Men do not know best what they know only in its isolation . Even Kant offset his metaphysics by lecturing on geography ; and Niebuhr , the historian , struggled hard and well to keep his equilibrium ...
... knowledge that cannot be overlooked . Men do not know best what they know only in its isolation . Even Kant offset his metaphysics by lecturing on geography ; and Niebuhr , the historian , struggled hard and well to keep his equilibrium ...
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... 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 tendency of modern ...
... 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 tendency of modern ...
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... knowledge . It takes force to handle weight . Some men seem to know more than is healthy for them . It does not make muscle , but becomes plethoric , drop- sical , adipose , or adipocere . Better to have thought more and acquired less ...
... knowledge . It takes force to handle weight . Some men seem to know more than is healthy for them . It does not make muscle , but becomes plethoric , drop- sical , adipose , or adipocere . Better to have thought more and acquired less ...
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... knowledge . It requires a first - class mind to carry a vast load of scientific facts . Hence the many eminent observers who have been the most illogical of reasoners . What a contrast between Hugh Miller and his friend Francia ; the ...
... knowledge . It requires a first - class mind to carry a vast load of scientific facts . Hence the many eminent observers who have been the most illogical of reasoners . What a contrast between Hugh Miller and his friend Francia ; the ...
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