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... Hicks left school to study law in his father's office . He set himself to the work with characteristic industry , but never took kindly to it . Speculative interests were already domin- ant , and his temperament was scarcely adapted to ...
... Hicks left school to study law in his father's office . He set himself to the work with characteristic industry , but never took kindly to it . Speculative interests were already domin- ant , and his temperament was scarcely adapted to ...
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... Hicks adopted in consequence involved him in the delivery of some fifteen lectures weekly . Here his strength and his weakness as a teacher was apparent . Not only was the field assigned a vast one , but the rate at which he traversed ...
... Hicks adopted in consequence involved him in the delivery of some fifteen lectures weekly . Here his strength and his weakness as a teacher was apparent . Not only was the field assigned a vast one , but the rate at which he traversed ...
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... Hicks attempted what , in order to be performed with distinction , required the services of half a dozen professors of philosophy rather than one . Not that Hicks's instruction was inferior to that given generally in this country ; on ...
... Hicks attempted what , in order to be performed with distinction , required the services of half a dozen professors of philosophy rather than one . Not that Hicks's instruction was inferior to that given generally in this country ; on ...
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PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By J H Clapham | 19 |
TSARDOM AND IMPERIALISM IN THE FAR EAST and Middle East | 25 |
REASON AND INTUITION Philosophical Lecture By A C Ewing | 67 |
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