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The mind gropes round restlessly by a yearning instinct ; it may be driven by the
strong impulse of native genius ; or it may rise to the condition of being the facile
servant of the forceful will . When the boy at Pisa curiously watches the oil lamp ...
The mind gropes round restlessly by a yearning instinct ; it may be driven by the
strong impulse of native genius ; or it may rise to the condition of being the facile
servant of the forceful will . When the boy at Pisa curiously watches the oil lamp ...
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Johnson ' s retorts exploded like a musket , and often struck like a musket - ball .
John Hunter fairly com pared his own mind to a beehive , all in a hum , but the
hum of industry and order and achievement . It I 2 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESSES
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Johnson ' s retorts exploded like a musket , and often struck like a musket - ball .
John Hunter fairly com pared his own mind to a beehive , all in a hum , but the
hum of industry and order and achievement . It I 2 ANNIVERSARY ADDRESSES
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It reminds us , by contrast , of other minds formed upon the model of the wasp ' s
nest , with a superabundance of hum and sting without , and no honey within . It
was of the voluminous works of a distinguished author that Robert Hall remarked
...
It reminds us , by contrast , of other minds formed upon the model of the wasp ' s
nest , with a superabundance of hum and sting without , and no honey within . It
was of the voluminous works of a distinguished author that Robert Hall remarked
...
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The more is the pity when a vigorous mind , in the outset of some great
discussion , heads for a fog bank or a windmill . When a man proposes to
chronicle a “ Conflict between Religion and Science , ” and makes religion stand
indiscriminately ...
The more is the pity when a vigorous mind , in the outset of some great
discussion , heads for a fog bank or a windmill . When a man proposes to
chronicle a “ Conflict between Religion and Science , ” and makes religion stand
indiscriminately ...
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Many a bright mind has struggled alone , to beat the air . Behold in some national
patent office a grand mummy pit of ignorant inventors . Those men upon whom so
much opprobrium has been heaped , the schoolmen , were unfortunate chiefly ...
Many a bright mind has struggled alone , to beat the air . Behold in some national
patent office a grand mummy pit of ignorant inventors . Those men upon whom so
much opprobrium has been heaped , the schoolmen , were unfortunate chiefly ...
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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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