The National Review, Volume 2Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot Robert Theobald, 1856 - Periodicals |
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... whole duty of man . Just then , in fact , reading is an end in itself . At that time of life you no more think of a future con- sequence , of the remote , the very remote possibility of deriving knowledge from the perusal of a book ...
... whole duty of man . Just then , in fact , reading is an end in itself . At that time of life you no more think of a future con- sequence , of the remote , the very remote possibility of deriving knowledge from the perusal of a book ...
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... whole . Small sciences are the labours of our manhood ; but the round universe is the play- thing of the boy . His fresh mind shoots out vaguely and crudely into the infinite and eternal . Nothing is hid from the depth of it : there are ...
... whole . Small sciences are the labours of our manhood ; but the round universe is the play- thing of the boy . His fresh mind shoots out vaguely and crudely into the infinite and eternal . Nothing is hid from the depth of it : there are ...
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... whole comes in boyhood ; the details later and in manhood . The won- derful series going far back to the times of old patriarchs with their flocks and herds , the keen - eyed Greek , the stately Roman , the watching Jew , the uncouth ...
... whole comes in boyhood ; the details later and in manhood . The won- derful series going far back to the times of old patriarchs with their flocks and herds , the keen - eyed Greek , the stately Roman , the watching Jew , the uncouth ...
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... whole days and weeks were suffered to elapse without labour or amusement , without advice or account . " The name of his second tutor is concealed in asterisks , and the sensitive conscience of Dean Milman will not allow him to insert a ...
... whole days and weeks were suffered to elapse without labour or amusement , without advice or account . " The name of his second tutor is concealed in asterisks , and the sensitive conscience of Dean Milman will not allow him to insert a ...
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... whole compass of the Greek tongue is comprised in Homer . I have so far met with the success I hoped for , that I have acquired a great facility in reading the language , and treasured up a very great stock of words . What I have rather ...
... whole compass of the Greek tongue is comprised in Homer . I have so far met with the success I hoped for , that I have acquired a great facility in reading the language , and treasured up a very great stock of words . What I have rather ...
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