Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 378 pages |
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... admitted among the fixed beliefs of all thinking men ? Surely , it is true that our countrymen are less subject to fire , famine , pestilence , and all the evils which result from a want of command over and due anticipation of the ...
... admitted among the fixed beliefs of all thinking men ? Surely , it is true that our countrymen are less subject to fire , famine , pestilence , and all the evils which result from a want of command over and due anticipation of the ...
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... admitted that the great ideas , some of which I have indicated , and the ethical spirit which I have endeavoured to sketch , in the few moments which remained at my disposal , constitute the real and permanent significance of natural ...
... admitted that the great ideas , some of which I have indicated , and the ethical spirit which I have endeavoured to sketch , in the few moments which remained at my disposal , constitute the real and permanent significance of natural ...
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... admitted , indeed , that there was a brief period of early youth when it might be hard to say whether the prize should be awarded to the graceful undulations of the female figure , or the perfect balance and supple vigour of the male ...
... admitted , indeed , that there was a brief period of early youth when it might be hard to say whether the prize should be awarded to the graceful undulations of the female figure , or the perfect balance and supple vigour of the male ...
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... admission that what we fondly call our great seats of learning are simply " boarding schools for bigger boys ; that learned men are not more numerous in them than out of them ; that the advancement of knowledge is not the object of ...
... admission that what we fondly call our great seats of learning are simply " boarding schools for bigger boys ; that learned men are not more numerous in them than out of them ; that the advancement of knowledge is not the object of ...
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... admitted by Physiologists themselves - that Biology differs from the Physico - chemical and Mathematical sciences in being " inexact . " Now , this phrase " inexact " must refer either to the methods or to the results of Physiological ...
... admitted by Physiologists themselves - that Biology differs from the Physico - chemical and Mathematical sciences in being " inexact . " Now , this phrase " inexact " must refer either to the methods or to the results of Physiological ...
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