Memoir on the cholera at Oxford, in the year 1854J. Churchill, 1856 - 172 páginas |
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Página 147 - For this purpose, it is not one, but many kinds of scholarship, that are effectual. Whatever may stimulate the powers of the understanding ; or may regale the appetite for speculation, by even that glimmering and imperfect light which is made to play, in a mechanic school, among the mysteries of nature ; or may unveil, though but partially, the great characteristics of wisdom and goodness that lie so profusely scattered over the face of visible things ; or may both exalt and give a wider compass...
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