The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volumen5David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler F.P. Kaiser, 1900 - 4190 páginas |
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... matter itself in one place , and progress toward it in another . Where then is progress ? If any of you , withdrawing himself from externals , turns to his own will to exercise it and to im- prove it by labor , so as to make it ...
... matter itself in one place , and progress toward it in another . Where then is progress ? If any of you , withdrawing himself from externals , turns to his own will to exercise it and to im- prove it by labor , so as to make it ...
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... matter that occurs he works out his chief principles as the runner does with reference to run- ning , and the trainer of the voice with reference to the voice , - this is the man who truly makes progress , and this is the man who has ...
... matter that occurs he works out his chief principles as the runner does with reference to run- ning , and the trainer of the voice with reference to the voice , - this is the man who truly makes progress , and this is the man who has ...
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... matter in all its forms depend on a fortuitous or fated concourse of atoms . As Democritus also invented the famous canon of agnosticism : - " We know nothing , not even if there is anything to know , " it is evi- dent that his ...
... matter in all its forms depend on a fortuitous or fated concourse of atoms . As Democritus also invented the famous canon of agnosticism : - " We know nothing , not even if there is anything to know , " it is evi- dent that his ...
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... matter , continually vomiting a foggy exhala- tion , and ejecting huge stones with an impetuous noise and roaring , like the report of many muskets discharging . This horrid bara- thrum engaged our attention for some hours , both for ...
... matter , continually vomiting a foggy exhala- tion , and ejecting huge stones with an impetuous noise and roaring , like the report of many muskets discharging . This horrid bara- thrum engaged our attention for some hours , both for ...
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... matter for so many years , that it sounds like a drum to those who walk upon it ; and the water thus struggling with those fires bubbles and spouts aloft into the air . The mouths of these spiracles are bestrewed with variously colored ...
... matter for so many years , that it sounds like a drum to those who walk upon it ; and the water thus struggling with those fires bubbles and spouts aloft into the air . The mouths of these spiracles are bestrewed with variously colored ...
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