 Experience shows us that the generality of men will find more interest in learning that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, or in learning the explanation of the phenomenon of dew, or in learning how the circulation...  Exercises in Rhetoric and English Composition - 第74页作者：George Rice Carpenter - 1891 - 195 页全本阅读 - 图书信息
 | 1877 - 604 页
...of things it would be if every scholar who had passed through the course of our primary schools knew that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, and thought, at the same time, that a good paraphrase for Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?... | |
 | 1882 - 922 页
...have the aptitude for thus using them, not the bulk of mankind. The natural sciences do not stand on the same footing with these instrument-knowledges....plural of pais and pas does not take the circumflex on the termination. And one piece of natural knowledge is added to another, and others to that, and... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 页
...its shell and begin the world. It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing w1th facts which is given by the study of nature... | |
 | 1882 - 1050 页
...it said that the thing is so, but we can be made to see that it is so. Not only does a man tell us that when a taper burns the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, as a man may tell us, if he likes, that Charon is in his boat on the Styx, or that Victor Hugo is a... | |
 | 1882 - 884 页
...its shell and begin the world. It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing with facts which is given by the study of nature... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 232 页
...The natural sciences do not, however, stand on the same footing with these instrument- knowledges. Experience shows us that the generality of men will...they find in learning that the genitive plural of pats and pas does not take the circumflex on the termination. And one piece of natural knowledge is... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1885 - 234 页
...its shell and begin the world. It is less interesting, perhaps, but still it is interesting, to know that when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water. Moreover, it is quite true that the habit of dealing with facts, which is given by the . study of nature,... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1889 - 332 页
...of things it would be if every scholar who had passed through the course of our primary schools knew that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, and thought, at the same time, that a good paraphrase for Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased,... | |
 | 1882 - 900 页
...it said that the thing is so, but we can be made to see that it is so. Not only does a man tell us that, when a taper burns, the wax is converted into carbonic acid and water, as a man may tell us, if he likes, that Charon is in his boat on the Styx, or that Victor Hugo is a... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1897 - 456 页
...the same footing with these instrument-knowledges. Experience shows us that the generality of 20 nun will find more interest in learning that, when a taper...circulation of the blood is carried on, than they find in 25 learning that the genitive plural of pats anA pas does not take the circumflex on the termination.... | |
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