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In this age of progress and improvement , the ignorant and unskilled can neither
maintain themselves as truly beneficial members of society , nor can they
contribute their share of the public burdens , and therefore in the mere mercenary
point ...
In this age of progress and improvement , the ignorant and unskilled can neither
maintain themselves as truly beneficial members of society , nor can they
contribute their share of the public burdens , and therefore in the mere mercenary
point ...
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I have never heard any credible statement of the strictly intellectual or moral
improvement of the inner man , from the state of clairvoyance . Generally , indeed
, the reverse obtains . It appears to me unquestionable , that the magnetic trance
is ...
I have never heard any credible statement of the strictly intellectual or moral
improvement of the inner man , from the state of clairvoyance . Generally , indeed
, the reverse obtains . It appears to me unquestionable , that the magnetic trance
is ...
Page 89
Is it from timidity ? or because you do not think the habit conducive to mental
improvement ? Or is it not rather from feelings of hopelessness and insuffisiency
? Experience and observation constrain me to conclude that the latter is the ...
Is it from timidity ? or because you do not think the habit conducive to mental
improvement ? Or is it not rather from feelings of hopelessness and insuffisiency
? Experience and observation constrain me to conclude that the latter is the ...
Page 90
I am particularly anxious to see you use your pens , not because the habit of
writing will enable you to produce something worth sending to press , but I
commend it to your attention primarily for your own improvement ; and should any
of you ...
I am particularly anxious to see you use your pens , not because the habit of
writing will enable you to produce something worth sending to press , but I
commend it to your attention primarily for your own improvement ; and should any
of you ...
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Verbosity , like the tree of many branches , must be subjected to the pruning knife
of improvement , and be deprived of all those shoots of fancy which weaken the
argument , hide the meaning , and perplex the reader . Ye who have language ...
Verbosity , like the tree of many branches , must be subjected to the pruning knife
of improvement , and be deprived of all those shoots of fancy which weaken the
argument , hide the meaning , and perplex the reader . Ye who have language ...
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Page 309 - BEFORE the starry threshold of Jove's court /My mansion is, where those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call Earth...
Page 238 - The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between men — between the feeble and the powerful, the great and the insignificant — is energy, invincible determination, a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory. That quality will do anything that can be done in this world, and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged creature a man without it.
Page 179 - I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the Milky Way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance. The waves beside them danced; but they Out-did the sparkling waves in glee: A poet could not but...
Page 177 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass : 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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Page 180 - Where no misgiving is, rely Upon the genial sense of youth; Glad hearts, without reproach or blot, Who do thy work and know it not: Oh!
Page 309 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream : And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole, Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 21 - But time did beckon to the flowers, and they By noon most cunningly did steal away, And withered in my hand.
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| Title | The Popular lecturer [afterw.] Pitman's Popular lecturer (and reader), ed. by H. Pitman, 4–6. köide |
| Editor | Henry Pitman |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 18 okt. 2006 |
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