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... Society of Harvard University , 28th August , 1834 , on Classical Learning and Eloquence . By William Howard Gardiner , Counsellor at Law . A Discourse on the Studies of the University . By Adam Sedgwick , M. A. , F. R. S. , & c ...
... Society of Harvard University , 28th August , 1834 , on Classical Learning and Eloquence . By William Howard Gardiner , Counsellor at Law . A Discourse on the Studies of the University . By Adam Sedgwick , M. A. , F. R. S. , & c ...
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... Society of Harvard University , 28th August , 1834 , on Classical Learning and Eloquence . By WILLIAM HOWARD Gardiner , Counsellor at Law . Cambridge : 1834 . 2. - A Discourse on the Studies of the University . By ADAM SEDGWICK , M. A. ...
... Society of Harvard University , 28th August , 1834 , on Classical Learning and Eloquence . By WILLIAM HOWARD Gardiner , Counsellor at Law . Cambridge : 1834 . 2. - A Discourse on the Studies of the University . By ADAM SEDGWICK , M. A. ...
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... Society lives with it as in an agi- tated cauldron , where the lees are as frequently on the surface as the nobler ingredients . As we are more liable to its influences than any other nation , so in many respects we are worse provid- ed ...
... Society lives with it as in an agi- tated cauldron , where the lees are as frequently on the surface as the nobler ingredients . As we are more liable to its influences than any other nation , so in many respects we are worse provid- ed ...
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... society , all that is courteous from manners . It asks a certificate of character from every undertaking , pausing upon it with its chilling and sneering philosophy , till it can lay its hand upon the evidence of its prac- ticability ...
... society , all that is courteous from manners . It asks a certificate of character from every undertaking , pausing upon it with its chilling and sneering philosophy , till it can lay its hand upon the evidence of its prac- ticability ...
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... society , too , are performed with more reference to the same faculty , than to any graduated scale of duty or utility . The sentence which condemned us to eternal toil , had been indeed severe , had it not been mitigated by this ...
... society , too , are performed with more reference to the same faculty , than to any graduated scale of duty or utility . The sentence which condemned us to eternal toil , had been indeed severe , had it not been mitigated by this ...
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