The North American Review, Volume 34James Russell Lowell O. Everett, 1832 Vols. 227-230, no. 2 include: Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930. |
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Page 220
... knowledge is as perfect as our nature will admit , should be utterly reprobated ; for knowledge is eternally progressive ; and we can have no claim to be estimated as the benefactors of posterity , unless by our own efforts and toils we ...
... knowledge is as perfect as our nature will admit , should be utterly reprobated ; for knowledge is eternally progressive ; and we can have no claim to be estimated as the benefactors of posterity , unless by our own efforts and toils we ...
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... knowledge , of which , until very recently , we have had least . We would not be under- stood to undervalue any species of knowledge . Every kind of information is precious . We would only say , that that which instructs us , where ...
... knowledge , of which , until very recently , we have had least . We would not be under- stood to undervalue any species of knowledge . Every kind of information is precious . We would only say , that that which instructs us , where ...
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... knowledge , as of every thing else ; and surely , on the scale of utility , the knowledge shes of what is all around us , affecting us , physically , intellectually , P and morally , in countless ways , ranks far higher than the ...
... knowledge , as of every thing else ; and surely , on the scale of utility , the knowledge shes of what is all around us , affecting us , physically , intellectually , P and morally , in countless ways , ranks far higher than the ...
Contents
REFORM IN England | 23 |
DEFENCE OF POETRY | 56 |
SILLIMANS CHEMISTRY | 79 |
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