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... society as he grew older , and generally popular . Indeed , it was an early and almost precocious realization of the risks to which he was exposed by his social gifts and natural temperament , that made him set himself firmly to acquire ...
... society as he grew older , and generally popular . Indeed , it was an early and almost precocious realization of the risks to which he was exposed by his social gifts and natural temperament , that made him set himself firmly to acquire ...
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... Society.1 About this time ( Lent Term , 1868 ) , he used to join me in going to Green of Balliol's college - lecture on Modern Philosophy . His interest in this subject seemed always to be uppermost , and to find its centre in the great ...
... Society.1 About this time ( Lent Term , 1868 ) , he used to join me in going to Green of Balliol's college - lecture on Modern Philosophy . His interest in this subject seemed always to be uppermost , and to find its centre in the great ...
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... society , and greatly enjoyed his experiences of German home life . His letters are full of the good music he heard , the interesting people he met , and the places he visited . A few extracts shall be given : - - On Wednesday I sat an ...
... society , and greatly enjoyed his experiences of German home life . His letters are full of the good music he heard , the interesting people he met , and the places he visited . A few extracts shall be given : - - On Wednesday I sat an ...
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... society suffers a double loss . First , it loses the additions to knowledge which the members of this latter class , or some of them , might have made ; and it loses , secondly , by having a portion of its routine business performed by ...
... society suffers a double loss . First , it loses the additions to knowledge which the members of this latter class , or some of them , might have made ; and it loses , secondly , by having a portion of its routine business performed by ...
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... Society , or to one of the other learned societies of London . It is either accepted or rejected . If rejected , it is clear that the author has mistaken his vocation , and that both the professor and the Board have made a blunder . But ...
... Society , or to one of the other learned societies of London . It is either accepted or rejected . If rejected , it is clear that the author has mistaken his vocation , and that both the professor and the Board have made a blunder . But ...
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Page 175 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 306 - Depart from us ; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. "What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
Page 161 - What we commonly call man, the eating, drinking, planting, counting man, does not, as we know him, represent himself, but misrepresents himself. Him we do not respect, but the soul, whose organ he is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our knees bend. When it breathes through his intellect, it is genius ; when it breathes through his will, it is virtue ; when it flows through his affection, it is love.
Page 289 - It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man, than by this, that atheists will ever be talking of that their opinion,. as if they fainted in it within themselves...
Page 200 - In the theological state, the human mind, seeking the essential nature of beings, the first and final causes (the origin and purpose) of all effects —in short, Absolute knowledge— supposes all phenomena to be produced by the immediate action of supernatural beings.
Page 290 - Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men ; Unless there be, who think not God at all : If any be, they walk obscure ; For of such doctrine never was there school, But the heart of the fool, And no man therein doctor but himself.
Page 132 - Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths, but they speak not : eyes have they, but they see not...
Page 212 - Hebraism and Hellenism, — between these two points of influence moves our world. At one time it feels more powerfully the attraction of one of them, at another time of the other ; and it ought to be, though it never is, evenly and happily balanced between them.