Lay Sermons, Addresses, and ReviewsMacmillan and Company, 1870 - 378 pages |
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... mind , I began to fear that a formal dedication at the beginning of such a volume would look like a grand lodge in front of a set of cottages ; while a complete defence of any of my old papers would simply amount to writing a new one ...
... mind , I began to fear that a formal dedication at the beginning of such a volume would look like a grand lodge in front of a set of cottages ; while a complete defence of any of my old papers would simply amount to writing a new one ...
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... only appropriate comparison I can find for her is , to liken her to such a peasant woman as one sees in the Alps , striding ever upward , heavily burdened , and with mind bent only 12 LAY SERMONS , ADDRESSES , AND REVIEW'S . I. [ ت.
... only appropriate comparison I can find for her is , to liken her to such a peasant woman as one sees in the Alps , striding ever upward , heavily burdened , and with mind bent only 12 LAY SERMONS , ADDRESSES , AND REVIEW'S . I. [ ت.
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Thomas Henry Huxley. upward , heavily burdened , and with mind bent only on her home ; but yet , without effort and without thought , knitting for her children . Now stockings are good and comfortable things , and the children will ...
Thomas Henry Huxley. upward , heavily burdened , and with mind bent only on her home ; but yet , without effort and without thought , knitting for her children . Now stockings are good and comfortable things , and the children will ...
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... minds ? I cannot but think that the foundations of all natural knowledge were laid when the reason of man first came face to face with the facts of Nature : when the savage first learned that the fingers of one hand are fewer than those ...
... minds ? I cannot but think that the foundations of all natural knowledge were laid when the reason of man first came face to face with the facts of Nature : when the savage first learned that the fingers of one hand are fewer than those ...
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... mind , presented a constancy of occurrence , and suggested that a fixed order ruled , at any rate , among them . I doubt if the grossest of Fetish worshippers ever imagined that a stone must have a god within it to make it fall , or ...
... mind , presented a constancy of occurrence , and suggested that a fixed order ruled , at any rate , among them . I doubt if the grossest of Fetish worshippers ever imagined that a stone must have a god within it to make it fall , or ...
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