The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties, Volume 2Harper, 1859 - Self-culture |
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... but we do not know how much worse they might have been , but for their love of learning , which , to the extent it did operate upon their characters , could not have been otherwise than beneficial . A genuine relish for intellec- tual.
... but we do not know how much worse they might have been , but for their love of learning , which , to the extent it did operate upon their characters , could not have been otherwise than beneficial . A genuine relish for intellec- tual.
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... character , while it gives to listlessness and weariness their most agreeable excitement and relaxation . But , omitting this consideration , it is still , of all amuse- ments , the best , for other reasons . So far from losing any part ...
... character , while it gives to listlessness and weariness their most agreeable excitement and relaxation . But , omitting this consideration , it is still , of all amuse- ments , the best , for other reasons . So far from losing any part ...
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... character , and , as far as possible , in habits , after he became the master of the world ; and he is , at least , one instance of a naturally good disposition , which power the most unbounded was unable to corrupt . To our common ...
... character , and , as far as possible , in habits , after he became the master of the world ; and he is , at least , one instance of a naturally good disposition , which power the most unbounded was unable to corrupt . To our common ...
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George Lillie Craik. decessor's moral character , nor the unimpassioned sagacity and clearness of vision which distinguished his understand- ing ; and is chargeable indeed with acting in many respects in a spirit of affectation and blind ...
George Lillie Craik. decessor's moral character , nor the unimpassioned sagacity and clearness of vision which distinguished his understand- ing ; and is chargeable indeed with acting in many respects in a spirit of affectation and blind ...
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... character that long distinguished it . His own writings , as has been stated , were poetical composi- tions , in the style that had been so recently introduced by Chaucer , whom , in his Quhair , he expressly mentions as his master ...
... character that long distinguished it . His own writings , as has been stated , were poetical composi- tions , in the style that had been so recently introduced by Chaucer , whom , in his Quhair , he expressly mentions as his master ...
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