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... hope I shall always look upon as at once a discipline and a philosophy , a knowledge and an instrument of search , and one of the best joys of old age , and for whose want in humane culture nothing can make Blount , and to be sold at ...
... hope I shall always look upon as at once a discipline and a philosophy , a knowledge and an instrument of search , and one of the best joys of old age , and for whose want in humane culture nothing can make Blount , and to be sold at ...
Page xviii
... hope , to its utmost , and we may now look for the system breaking up into small bands of doers acting under the Master , rather than multitudes of mere listeners , and not unoften sleepers . Connected with this , I cannot help alluding ...
... hope , to its utmost , and we may now look for the system breaking up into small bands of doers acting under the Master , rather than multitudes of mere listeners , and not unoften sleepers . Connected with this , I cannot help alluding ...
Page xxxiv
... Hope , called , in his lofty way , its " principle of absolute levity . " He was greatly excited , the good old man of genius . James was standing behind his chair , ready and sulky . His master told his young friends that the bladder ...
... Hope , called , in his lofty way , its " principle of absolute levity . " He was greatly excited , the good old man of genius . James was standing behind his chair , ready and sulky . His master told his young friends that the bladder ...
Page xxxvi
... of Calvinism , mitigated but not renounced , and received simply as dictates of Heaven , without any effort or hope to bridge over their inscrutable depths by philosophical theories , he translated into a xxxvi Preface .
... of Calvinism , mitigated but not renounced , and received simply as dictates of Heaven , without any effort or hope to bridge over their inscrutable depths by philosophical theories , he translated into a xxxvi Preface .
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... hope to be a great physician , much less a virtuous and honest man . This characteristic is very striking . In the midst of the most minute details , and the most purely professional statements , he bursts out into some abrupt ...
... hope to be a great physician , much less a virtuous and honest man . This characteristic is very striking . In the midst of the most minute details , and the most purely professional statements , he bursts out into some abrupt ...
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