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Page 12
An exactness of knowledge that defines all its landmarks , how is it master of the
situation ! A precision of speech , born of clear thinking — what controversial
battlefields of sulphurous . smoke and scattering fire might it prevent ! He has
been ...
An exactness of knowledge that defines all its landmarks , how is it master of the
situation ! A precision of speech , born of clear thinking — what controversial
battlefields of sulphurous . smoke and scattering fire might it prevent ! He has
been ...
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It consisted in the exact and exhaustive mastery of certain limited sections of
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 .
It consisted in the exact and exhaustive mastery of certain limited sections of
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 .
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... their great thirst of truth and unwearied travel of wit had joined variety of
reading and contemplation , they had proved great lights to the advancement of
all learning and knowledge . ” And so , for lack of other timber , they split hairs .
Hence ...
... their great thirst of truth and unwearied travel of wit had joined variety of
reading and contemplation , they had proved great lights to the advancement of
all learning and knowledge . ” And so , for lack of other timber , they split hairs .
Hence ...
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There is a common bond — quoddane commune vinculum — in the circle of
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 ...
There is a common bond — quoddane commune vinculum — in the circle of
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 ...
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While every year increases the impossibility of what used to be called universal
knowledge , it also emphasizes the necessity of a scholarship that has its outlook
toward all the vast provinces of reading and thought . It cannot conquer them ...
While every year increases the impossibility of what used to be called universal
knowledge , it also emphasizes the necessity of a scholarship that has its outlook
toward all the vast provinces of reading and thought . It cannot conquer them ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Anniversary Addresses |
| Author | Samuel Colcord Bartlett |
| Publisher | Congregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 3 Mar 2009 |
| Length | 517 pages |
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