The New England Magazine, Volume 3New England Magazine Company, 1891 |
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... fact con- forms to the general law . " The highest pleasure is found in the discovery of a law to account for mysterious facts . All events are really equally mysterious , said the young tutor , but our senses are dead- ened to some ...
... fact con- forms to the general law . " The highest pleasure is found in the discovery of a law to account for mysterious facts . All events are really equally mysterious , said the young tutor , but our senses are dead- ened to some ...
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... fact that small farms well worked pay better than large farms poorly worked . The market- gardener makes more than the grain farmer . If large tracts are held to sell in quanti- ties to suit , there is little danger of land monopoly ...
... fact that small farms well worked pay better than large farms poorly worked . The market- gardener makes more than the grain farmer . If large tracts are held to sell in quanti- ties to suit , there is little danger of land monopoly ...
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... fact that we are on the eve of a great national crisis in Canada ; and an intellectual revolution , which will mark an epoch in our literary history , is already at hand . As is usual in the initial stages of every literature , there ...
... fact that we are on the eve of a great national crisis in Canada ; and an intellectual revolution , which will mark an epoch in our literary history , is already at hand . As is usual in the initial stages of every literature , there ...
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... fact that the love of the beautiful and the capability of expressing beautiful thought is not the heritage of one race , one country , or one hemisphere . Art , in the widest possible acceptance of the term , is the world's Archibald ...
... fact that the love of the beautiful and the capability of expressing beautiful thought is not the heritage of one race , one country , or one hemisphere . Art , in the widest possible acceptance of the term , is the world's Archibald ...
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... fact of his venerable beard and the gentle stoop of his shoulders one would scarcely believe it . His step is as elastic as that of many men in the prime of their manhood ; his eyes are as keen and as full of vitality , and his voice as ...
... fact of his venerable beard and the gentle stoop of his shoulders one would scarcely believe it . His step is as elastic as that of many men in the prime of their manhood ; his eyes are as keen and as full of vitality , and his voice as ...
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