Anniversary AddressesCongregational Sunday School and Publishing Company, 1894 - 517 pages |
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Page 16
... never an arrow , but a boomerang . Or he thinks in poetry instead of prose , deals in analogy where it should be analysis , puts rhetoric for logic , scatters and not concentrates , and while he radiates never irradiates . A late divine ...
... never an arrow , but a boomerang . Or he thinks in poetry instead of prose , deals in analogy where it should be analysis , puts rhetoric for logic , scatters and not concentrates , and while he radiates never irradiates . A late divine ...
Page 19
... never presume to examine . ” " If these schoolmen , " says Bacon , " to 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 ...
... never presume to examine . ” " If these schoolmen , " says Bacon , " to 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 ...
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... never said anything in all the languages he spoke ! What consti- tutes the life of an intellectual jellyfish ? Even the brilliancy of Macaulay was almost overweighted by the immensity of his acquisitions . The vivid glitter of details ...
... never said anything in all the languages he spoke ! What consti- tutes the life of an intellectual jellyfish ? Even the brilliancy of Macaulay was almost overweighted by the immensity of his acquisitions . The vivid glitter of details ...
Page 24
... never could be used , and was of no use to himself or any one else ; " the former wielding all his stores as he swung his sledge . What is wanted is the comprehensive hand , and not the prehensile tail . ― Involved in such an equipoise ...
... never could be used , and was of no use to himself or any one else ; " the former wielding all his stores as he swung his sledge . What is wanted is the comprehensive hand , and not the prehensile tail . ― Involved in such an equipoise ...
Page 35
... never to be revoked , and to God I commit it ; and my only hope and confidence for the execution of it is in Him alone who has already done great things for it , and does still own it as his cause . " God has never yet revoked the ...
... never to be revoked , and to God I commit it ; and my only hope and confidence for the execution of it is in Him alone who has already done great things for it , and does still own it as his cause . " God has never yet revoked the ...
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