Essays, Orations and LecturesWilliam Tegg and Company, 1848 - 385 páginas |
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... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages ...
... light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant , as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces , so the hours should be instructed by the ages , and the ages ...
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... light of all our day ; the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity ; the foundation of friendship and love , and of the heroism and grandeur which belongs to acts of self- reliance . It is remarkable that ...
... light of all our day ; the claim of claims ; the plea for education , for justice , for charity ; the foundation of friendship and love , and of the heroism and grandeur which belongs to acts of self- reliance . It is remarkable that ...
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... lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively , and not passively ; to esteem his own life the text , and books the commentary . Thus ...
... lights of the firmament . These hints , dropped as it were from sleep and night , let us use in broad day . The student is to read history actively , and not passively ; to esteem his own life the text , and books the commentary . Thus ...
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... light and of the world . I remember that being abroad one summer day , my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted ...
... light and of the world . I remember that being abroad one summer day , my companion pointed out to me a broad cloud , which might extend a quarter of a mile parallel to the horizon , quite accurately in the form of a cherub as painted ...
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... light by which man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts ...
... light by which man is truly man . But if the man is true to his better instincts or sentiments , and refuses the dominion of facts , as one that comes of a higher race remains fast by the soul and sees the principle , then the facts ...
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