Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries: Interspersed with Some Particulars Respecting the AuthorE. Wilson, 1831 - 471 頁 |
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... persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting , overlooking , and taking small account of the body . It is in this spirit that the story is recorded of Anaxarchus , who , we are told , was ordered by Nicocreon , tyrant of Salamis , to ...
... persons of elevated soul to talk of neglecting , overlooking , and taking small account of the body . It is in this spirit that the story is recorded of Anaxarchus , who , we are told , was ordered by Nicocreon , tyrant of Salamis , to ...
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... persons will perhaps be brilliant , and the rest " weary , stale , flat and un- profitable . " Go into a numerous school - the case will be still more striking . I have been present where two men of superior endowments endeavoured to ...
... persons will perhaps be brilliant , and the rest " weary , stale , flat and un- profitable . " Go into a numerous school - the case will be still more striking . I have been present where two men of superior endowments endeavoured to ...
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... person whom he re- gards as his equal . There is nothing that has so disqualifying an effect upon him who is to answer , as the consideration that he who questions is uni- versally acknowledged to be a being of a higher ' sphere , or ...
... person whom he re- gards as his equal . There is nothing that has so disqualifying an effect upon him who is to answer , as the consideration that he who questions is uni- versally acknowledged to be a being of a higher ' sphere , or ...
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... facts and reasonings which take him by surprise , that he is not altogether the person he deemed him- self to be . But he does not mind it . Like Iago in the play , he " knows his price , and 22 of the distrIBUTION OF TALENTS . [ ESSAY.
... facts and reasonings which take him by surprise , that he is not altogether the person he deemed him- self to be . But he does not mind it . Like Iago in the play , he " knows his price , and 22 of the distrIBUTION OF TALENTS . [ ESSAY.
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... progress . But parents are not impartial . There are also two reasons why the schoolmaster is not the proper person to pronounce : first , because , if he pronounces in the negative , he will have 26 [ ESSAY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS .
... progress . But parents are not impartial . There are also two reasons why the schoolmaster is not the proper person to pronounce : first , because , if he pronounces in the negative , he will have 26 [ ESSAY OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF TALENTS .
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