Essays, Old and NewWilliams and Norgate, 1887 - 196 páginas |
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... intellectual equality . The best talkers may be as superior to the listeners , as the officers in a regiment are to the privates . A good talker , however , will contrive , not exactly to conceal , but at any rate to keep back his ...
... intellectual equality . The best talkers may be as superior to the listeners , as the officers in a regiment are to the privates . A good talker , however , will contrive , not exactly to conceal , but at any rate to keep back his ...
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... intellectual . It is always ready , is not dependent upon set times and seasons and localities — any time will do , and any place . By its means you may sift your knowledge and opinions , winnow the wheat from the chaff , learn to ...
... intellectual . It is always ready , is not dependent upon set times and seasons and localities — any time will do , and any place . By its means you may sift your knowledge and opinions , winnow the wheat from the chaff , learn to ...
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... intellectual effort that is of any use to himself or to anyone else . It would be charity to such a person if he could be bound down to one or two books , even though they were Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver . If such a reader had to get ...
... intellectual effort that is of any use to himself or to anyone else . It would be charity to such a person if he could be bound down to one or two books , even though they were Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver . If such a reader had to get ...
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... intellectual healt vigour ? " " If not , what is the best physic ? " Now supposing each one of us is , in the first properly qualified for his walk in life ; that he is mas his business , or profession , or the calling by which he his ...
... intellectual healt vigour ? " " If not , what is the best physic ? " Now supposing each one of us is , in the first properly qualified for his walk in life ; that he is mas his business , or profession , or the calling by which he his ...
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... intellectual acquirements ; and as can rise above his standard , so they are content with defects , content to give up certain sources of intell recreation and pleasure , and even of sensuous enjoyment , DESULTORY READING .
... intellectual acquirements ; and as can rise above his standard , so they are content with defects , content to give up certain sources of intell recreation and pleasure , and even of sensuous enjoyment , DESULTORY READING .
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Página 189 - And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.
Página 189 - And all that believed were together, and had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need ; and they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people.
Página 184 - Finally brethren, farewell : be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace ; and the God of love and peace shall be with you.
Página 83 - Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs...
Página 63 - Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
Página 184 - Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
Página 132 - There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Página 178 - So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
Página 172 - These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
Página 154 - Why look you there ! look, how it steals away ! My father, in his habit as he lived! Look, where he goes, even now, out at the portal ! [Exit Qhosl.