Essays: Moral, Political and AestheticD. Appleton, 1888 - 428 páginas |
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... questions of immediate and practical concern . Although some of the following Essays may seem to be confined to the consideration of English policy , yet this limitation is only apparent . English facts and experiences are taken as ...
... questions of immediate and practical concern . Although some of the following Essays may seem to be confined to the consideration of English policy , yet this limitation is only apparent . English facts and experiences are taken as ...
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... question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaint- ance with its laws , than upon practice and natural apti- tude . A clear head , a quick imagination , and a sensitive ear , will go far towards making all rhetorical ...
... question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaint- ance with its laws , than upon practice and natural apti- tude . A clear head , a quick imagination , and a sensitive ear , will go far towards making all rhetorical ...
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Herbert Spencer. MUST VARY WITH THE MIND ADDRESSED . 25 : t becomes a question whether most mental effort will be entailed by the many and long suspensions , or by the cor- rection of successive misconceptions . This question may ...
Herbert Spencer. MUST VARY WITH THE MIND ADDRESSED . 25 : t becomes a question whether most mental effort will be entailed by the many and long suspensions , or by the cor- rection of successive misconceptions . This question may ...
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... questions , What are we , and Whither do we tend ? We do not wish to be deceived . Here we drift , like white sail across the wild ocean , now bright on the wave , now darkling in the trough of the sea ; but from what port did we sail ...
... questions , What are we , and Whither do we tend ? We do not wish to be deceived . Here we drift , like white sail across the wild ocean , now bright on the wave , now darkling in the trough of the sea ; but from what port did we sail ...
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... question of probabilities , it is decidedly unlikely that his views upon any debatable topic are correct . Here , " he reflects , " are thousands around me holding on this or that point opinions differing from mine — wholly in most ...
... question of probabilities , it is decidedly unlikely that his views upon any debatable topic are correct . Here , " he reflects , " are thousands around me holding on this or that point opinions differing from mine — wholly in most ...
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