Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and ReadingBell & Daldy, 1859 - 256 páginas |
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... talk of ten hours a day as nothing very extra- ordinary . At Oxford , very few men worked , when I re- member it , more than five or six at the utmost , exclusive of lectures ; and of those , I may add , who , as an old comedy says ...
... talk of ten hours a day as nothing very extra- ordinary . At Oxford , very few men worked , when I re- member it , more than five or six at the utmost , exclusive of lectures ; and of those , I may add , who , as an old comedy says ...
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... talk about an empty bottle , because it has got air in it . THOSE who do not care what truths they abuse or desecrate , in order to buttress up some favourite po- sition , resemble the Athenians whom Thucydides describes as building up ...
... talk about an empty bottle , because it has got air in it . THOSE who do not care what truths they abuse or desecrate , in order to buttress up some favourite po- sition , resemble the Athenians whom Thucydides describes as building up ...
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... talking of brain , there are others again who , having had , perhaps , a tendency to water on the brain in their childhood , have been diligently correcting it with some stronger fluid ever sinee . * THERE are few things that have ...
... talking of brain , there are others again who , having had , perhaps , a tendency to water on the brain in their childhood , have been diligently correcting it with some stronger fluid ever sinee . * THERE are few things that have ...
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... not . I suspect Arnold , like a great many very kind men , expended much of his severity in talk , as mean men exhaust their charity , and irresolute men their resolution , in the same way . He says elsewhere LIFE AND BOOKS . 59.
... not . I suspect Arnold , like a great many very kind men , expended much of his severity in talk , as mean men exhaust their charity , and irresolute men their resolution , in the same way . He says elsewhere LIFE AND BOOKS . 59.
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... talk of the age of Elizabeth , but of the age of Shakespeare and Bacon ; not of the age of Anne , but that of Pope and Swift . What is the cause of the clusters of great men that have formed themselves each under the most varied ...
... talk of the age of Elizabeth , but of the age of Shakespeare and Bacon ; not of the age of Anne , but that of Pope and Swift . What is the cause of the clusters of great men that have formed themselves each under the most varied ...
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