How to Observe: Morals and MannersC. Knight and Company, 1838 - 238 էջ |
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... less should the artist , the natural philosopher , the commercial traveller , or the classical scholar , be ashamed to own himself unae- quainted with the science which , of all the sciences which have yet opened upon men , is , perhaps ...
... less should the artist , the natural philosopher , the commercial traveller , or the classical scholar , be ashamed to own himself unae- quainted with the science which , of all the sciences which have yet opened upon men , is , perhaps ...
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... less , with , perhaps , one man in ten thousand of those he sees ; and of the few with whom he converses , no two are alike in powers and in training , or perfectly agree in their views on any one of the great subjects which the ...
... less , with , perhaps , one man in ten thousand of those he sees ; and of the few with whom he converses , no two are alike in powers and in training , or perfectly agree in their views on any one of the great subjects which the ...
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... less diversified than the human subject , and nothing of so much importance as human emotions - love and dislike , reverence and contempt depends upon their judgment . If a student in natural as philosophy is in too grea classify and ...
... less diversified than the human subject , and nothing of so much importance as human emotions - love and dislike , reverence and contempt depends upon their judgment . If a student in natural as philosophy is in too grea classify and ...
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... less ; and the quickest minds , which love to reason and explain more than to observe with patience , go most astray . My faith in travels received a mortal wound when I travelled . I read , as I went along , the books of those who had ...
... less ; and the quickest minds , which love to reason and explain more than to observe with patience , go most astray . My faith in travels received a mortal wound when I travelled . I read , as I went along , the books of those who had ...
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... less luminous , presented to me one of its faces . ' What ! ' exclaimed I , ' is that the earth which is inhabited by human beings ? ' " * • The differences are , that , instead of " one of its faces , " the moralist would see the whole ...
... less luminous , presented to me one of its faces . ' What ! ' exclaimed I , ' is that the earth which is inhabited by human beings ? ' " * • The differences are , that , instead of " one of its faces , " the moralist would see the whole ...
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