Modern Eloquence, Volume 9Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh J.D. Morris, 1900 |
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Page 913
... intellect must have an excellence of its own , for there was nothing which had not its specific good ; that the word " educate " would not be used of intellectual culture , as it is used , had not the intellect had an end of its own ...
... intellect must have an excellence of its own , for there was nothing which had not its specific good ; that the word " educate " would not be used of intellectual culture , as it is used , had not the intellect had an end of its own ...
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... intellect is little more than an instrument for taking in facts , or a receptacle for storing them ; he welcomes them as fast as they come to him ; he lives on what is without ; he has his eyes ever about him ; he has a lively ...
... intellect is little more than an instrument for taking in facts , or a receptacle for storing them ; he welcomes them as fast as they come to him ; he lives on what is without ; he has his eyes ever about him ; he has a lively ...
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... intellect , different beings from what they were . Be- fore , they took things as they came , and thought no more of one thing than another . But now every event has a meaning ; they have their own estimate of whatever hap- pens to them ...
... intellect , different beings from what they were . Be- fore , they took things as they came , and thought no more of one thing than another . But now every event has a meaning ; they have their own estimate of whatever hap- pens to them ...
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... intellect , and recognized to be such by the common opinion of man- kind , such as the intellect of Aristotle , or of St. Thomas , or of Newton , or of Goethe ( I purposely take instances within and without the Catholic pale , when I ...
... intellect , and recognized to be such by the common opinion of man- kind , such as the intellect of Aristotle , or of St. Thomas , or of Newton , or of Goethe ( I purposely take instances within and without the Catholic pale , when I ...
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... intellect or to philosophy . The case is the same still more strikingly where the persons in question are beyond dispute men of inferior powers and deficient education . Perhaps they have been much in foreign countries , and they ...
... intellect or to philosophy . The case is the same still more strikingly where the persons in question are beyond dispute men of inferior powers and deficient education . Perhaps they have been much in foreign countries , and they ...
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