The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... knowledge ; and which he may continue to peruse , lay down , and take up at pleasure , without breaking the thread , or interrupting the chain of reasoning . " IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PHILADELEHTA : LEA & BLANCHARD , SUCCESSORS TO ...
... knowledge ; and which he may continue to peruse , lay down , and take up at pleasure , without breaking the thread , or interrupting the chain of reasoning . " IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . I. PHILADELEHTA : LEA & BLANCHARD , SUCCESSORS TO ...
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... Knowledge . - There are in knowledge these two excellencies ; first , that it offers to every man , the most selfish and the most exalted , his peculiar induce- ment to good . It says to the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve ...
... Knowledge . - There are in knowledge these two excellencies ; first , that it offers to every man , the most selfish and the most exalted , his peculiar induce- ment to good . It says to the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve ...
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... knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he only coveted gold upon its altar . - E ...
... knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he only coveted gold upon its altar . - E ...
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... knowledge ; and though men may be kept ignorant , they cannot be made ignorant . The mind , in discovering truth , acts in the same manner as the eye in discovering objects , when once the object has been seen , it is impossible to put ...
... knowledge ; and though men may be kept ignorant , they cannot be made ignorant . The mind , in discovering truth , acts in the same manner as the eye in discovering objects , when once the object has been seen , it is impossible to put ...
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... Knowledge . The strong barriers which confined the stores of wisdom have been thrown down , and a flood overspreads the earth : old establishments are adapting themselves to the spirit of the age ; new establish- ments are rising ; the ...
... Knowledge . The strong barriers which confined the stores of wisdom have been thrown down , and a flood overspreads the earth : old establishments are adapting themselves to the spirit of the age ; new establish- ments are rising ; the ...
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