Discourses in America, 1 leidimasMacmillan and Company, 1885 - 207 psl. The first discourse was originally given in New York, and afterwards published in the Nineteenth century; the second was given as the Rede lecture at Cambridge, and recast for delivery in America; the third was delivered in Boston. |
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... discipline of respect ; in hardness and materialism , exaggeration and boastfulness ; in a false smartness , a false audacity , a want of soul and delicacy . ' Whatso- ever things are elevated , ' — whatsoever things are nobly serious ...
... discipline of respect ; in hardness and materialism , exaggeration and boastfulness ; in a false smartness , a false audacity , a want of soul and delicacy . ' Whatso- ever things are elevated , ' — whatsoever things are nobly serious ...
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... discipline . Certainly I am not blind to the faults of that discipline . Cer- tainly I do not wish it to remain in possession of the field for ever , or too long . But as a stage and a discipline , and as means for enabling that poor ...
... discipline . Certainly I am not blind to the faults of that discipline . Cer- tainly I do not wish it to remain in possession of the field for ever , or too long . But as a stage and a discipline , and as means for enabling that poor ...
71 psl.
... discipline , and set in this enviable and unbounded country . Even supposing , therefore , that by the necessity of things your majority must in the present stage of the world prob- ably be unsound , what a remnant , I say , what an ...
... discipline , and set in this enviable and unbounded country . Even supposing , therefore , that by the necessity of things your majority must in the present stage of the world prob- ably be unsound , what a remnant , I say , what an ...
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... disciplines ; but to the parti- cular discipline recommended when I proposed knowing the best that has been thought and said in the world , it does not apply . In that best I certainly include what in modern times has been thought and ...
... disciplines ; but to the parti- cular discipline recommended when I proposed knowing the best that has been thought and said in the world , it does not apply . In that best I certainly include what in modern times has been thought and ...
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... discipline . The appeal , in the study of nature , is constantly to observation and experiment ; not only is it said that the thing is so , but we can be made to see that it is so . Not only does a man tell us that when a taper burns ...
... discipline . The appeal , in the study of nature , is constantly to observation and experiment ; not only is it said that the thing is so , but we can be made to see that it is so . Not only does a man tell us that when a taper burns ...
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