Modern Eloquence, Volume 7Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 58
... knowledge and cultivation . Feed them and they grow ; minister to them and they will greatly multiply . We hear much in- deed of what is called " idle curiosity , " but I am loth to brand any form of curiosity as necessarily idle . Take ...
... knowledge and cultivation . Feed them and they grow ; minister to them and they will greatly multiply . We hear much in- deed of what is called " idle curiosity , " but I am loth to brand any form of curiosity as necessarily idle . Take ...
Page 59
... knowledge for the sake of knowledge was the animating motive of the great men who first wrested her secrets from nature , why should it not also be enough for us , to whom it is not given to discover , but only to learn as best we may ...
... knowledge for the sake of knowledge was the animating motive of the great men who first wrested her secrets from nature , why should it not also be enough for us , to whom it is not given to discover , but only to learn as best we may ...
Page 60
... knowledge being un- desirable , a little knowledge is all that on most subjects any of us can hope to attain , and that as a source not of worldly profit but of personal pleasure , it may be of incal- culable value to its possessor ...
... knowledge being un- desirable , a little knowledge is all that on most subjects any of us can hope to attain , and that as a source not of worldly profit but of personal pleasure , it may be of incal- culable value to its possessor ...
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