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It has altered our whole state of existence - one might say , the whole face of the
globe . We owe this to science , and to science alone ; and she has other
treasures in store for us , if we will but call her to our assistance .
DETERMINATION TO ...
It has altered our whole state of existence - one might say , the whole face of the
globe . We owe this to science , and to science alone ; and she has other
treasures in store for us , if we will but call her to our assistance .
DETERMINATION TO ...
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... and fully sensible that , like the Sovereign to whom I had just been united , and
to devote my whole existence to whom it had become my privilege , I could
belong only to the nation at large , free from the trammels and above the
dissensions ...
... and fully sensible that , like the Sovereign to whom I had just been united , and
to devote my whole existence to whom it had become my privilege , I could
belong only to the nation at large , free from the trammels and above the
dissensions ...
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... nothing is little , from the knowledge that in the moral and intellectual , as in the
physical world , the smallest point is only a link in that great chain , and holds its
appointed place in that great whole , which is governed by the Divine Wisdom .
... nothing is little , from the knowledge that in the moral and intellectual , as in the
physical world , the smallest point is only a link in that great chain , and holds its
appointed place in that great whole , which is governed by the Divine Wisdom .
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... unfortunately whole nations distracted , and the very fabric of society
endangered , from the levity with which the result of the experience of
generations , the growth of ages , has been thrown away to give place to
temporarily favourite ideas .
... unfortunately whole nations distracted , and the very fabric of society
endangered , from the levity with which the result of the experience of
generations , the growth of ages , has been thrown away to give place to
temporarily favourite ideas .
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him at once a painful and laborious search , and affording him at the same time
an assurance that what is here offered contains the whole of the treasures yet
acquired . While this has been one of its latest attempts , the Association has from
its ...
him at once a painful and laborious search , and affording him at the same time
an assurance that what is here offered contains the whole of the treasures yet
acquired . While this has been one of its latest attempts , the Association has from
its ...
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Page 52 - ... the vast number of distinguished men who labour in her sacred cause, and whose achievements, while spreading innumerable benefits, justly attract the admiration of mankind, contrasted strongly in my mind with the consciousness of my own insignificance in this respect. I, a simple .admirer and would-be student of Science, to take the place of the chief and spokesman of the scientific men of the day, assembled in furtherance of their important objects !—the thing appeared to me impossible.
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| Title | Prince Albert's golden precepts: or, The opinions and maxims of ... the prince consort, selected from his addresses, etc |
| Author | Albert (consort of Victoria, queen of Gt. Britain.) |
| Published | 1873 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 31 juuli 2006 |
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