Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh John D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 915
... knowledge . The same notion possesses the public mind , when it passes on from the thought of a school to that of a Uni- versity and with the best of reasons so far as this , that there is no true culture without acquirements , and that ...
... knowledge . The same notion possesses the public mind , when it passes on from the thought of a school to that of a Uni- versity and with the best of reasons so far as this , that there is no true culture without acquirements , and that ...
Page 919
... knowledge subjectively our own , or , to use a familiar word , it is a digestion of what we receive , into the substance of our previous state of thought ; and without this no enlargement is said to fol- low . There is no enlargement ...
... knowledge subjectively our own , or , to use a familiar word , it is a digestion of what we receive , into the substance of our previous state of thought ; and without this no enlargement is said to fol- low . There is no enlargement ...
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... knowledge of history ; it is almost heart - searching from its knowledge of human nature ; it has almost supernatural charity from its freedom from littleness and prejudice ; it has almost the repose of faith , because nothing can ...
... knowledge of history ; it is almost heart - searching from its knowledge of human nature ; it has almost supernatural charity from its freedom from littleness and prejudice ; it has almost the repose of faith , because nothing can ...
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