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Page 9
... learning to reason and learning to live ? What is the propriety of identification ? - become more real and more blurred than writers about books commonly allow . As George Eliot puts it , there is a roar on the other side of silence ...
... learning to reason and learning to live ? What is the propriety of identification ? - become more real and more blurred than writers about books commonly allow . As George Eliot puts it , there is a roar on the other side of silence ...
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... learning afresh from our predecessors , yet learning even in the same sort of way as they themselves did . The handing on of such a human tradition constitutes ' something ' , as Reynolds called it , ' steady , substantial , and durable ...
... learning afresh from our predecessors , yet learning even in the same sort of way as they themselves did . The handing on of such a human tradition constitutes ' something ' , as Reynolds called it , ' steady , substantial , and durable ...
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... learning - to - be - wise : he could never bring himself to mean that . He means we should pause awhile from Learning ( comma understood ) , if we are also to learn to look up from the page and be Wise . As the words themselves suggest ...
... learning - to - be - wise : he could never bring himself to mean that . He means we should pause awhile from Learning ( comma understood ) , if we are also to learn to look up from the page and be Wise . As the words themselves suggest ...
Contents
Almost every man will be found to have enlisted | 10 |
Discoursing like an angel living like a | 21 |
The System of Life | 42 |
Copyright | |
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