Essays for College MenH. Holt, 1913 - 3 páginas |
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... pleasures and cease to be occupations , will delight our under- graduate days , but not monopolize them . They are exaggerated now because they are separated and do not exchange impulses with those greater things of whose presence they ...
... pleasures and cease to be occupations , will delight our under- graduate days , but not monopolize them . They are exaggerated now because they are separated and do not exchange impulses with those greater things of whose presence they ...
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... pleasure ; we are simply trying to throw them a great deal together in the confidence that they will fall in love with one an- other . We are seeking to expose the undergrad- uate when he is most susceptible to the best and 26 WOODROW ...
... pleasure ; we are simply trying to throw them a great deal together in the confidence that they will fall in love with one an- other . We are seeking to expose the undergrad- uate when he is most susceptible to the best and 26 WOODROW ...
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... pleasures that they have never dreamed of the fun of reading and conversing and investigating and reflecting . And of these one can only say that the difference is one of taste , and that their tastes seem to be relatively dull and ...
... pleasures that they have never dreamed of the fun of reading and conversing and investigating and reflecting . And of these one can only say that the difference is one of taste , and that their tastes seem to be relatively dull and ...
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... pleasure , a studious and inquisitive mind arranging the productions of nature , in- vestigating the qualities of bodies , or mastering the difficulties of the learned languages . We should not care whether he was chemist , natural- · 1 ...
... pleasure , a studious and inquisitive mind arranging the productions of nature , in- vestigating the qualities of bodies , or mastering the difficulties of the learned languages . We should not care whether he was chemist , natural- · 1 ...
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... pleasure ; indeed , a very active agent in cir- culating and forming the opinions , tastes , and feelings of a whole people . It makes of itself a considerable affair . Its topics are the most pro- miscuous - all those which do not ...
... pleasure ; indeed , a very active agent in cir- culating and forming the opinions , tastes , and feelings of a whole people . It makes of itself a considerable affair . Its topics are the most pro- miscuous - all those which do not ...
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æsthetic ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN artistic Auguste Comte beauty become better called carbonic acid class-room cultivation culture definite desire discipline edge emotions ence enlargement eral Euglena exercise experience expression fact faculties feel force gain give Greek habit humane letters ical ideal ideas imagination instinct intel intellectual interest JOHN HENRY NEWMAN judgment kind knowl language learning less liberal education literary literature living mankind matter means ment mental methods mind modern Molière moral natural knowledge never object Paradise Lost person philosophy physical science Plato pleasure poetry practical present principles professional Professor Huxley pupils question reader reading result scholar scientific sense society soul spirit student taste teachers teaching things THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY thought tion to-day true truth ture undergraduates understand University whole words
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