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" I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong. "
Letters on Clerical Manners and Habits: Addressed to a Student in the ... - Page 304
by Samuel Miller - 1852 - 376 pages
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The Universe of Suns: And Other Science Gleanings

Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1884 - 422 pages
...is very strong reason for suspecting the evidence before us. We must note, in the first place, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to free results from ' selection ' in some form or other. Take the simple instance of tossing up a halfpenny...
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Knowledge: An Illustrated Magazine of Science, Volume 5

Science - 1884 - 536 pages
...is very strong reason for suspecting the evidence before us. We must note, in the first place, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to free resulte from " selection " in some form or other. Take the simple instance of tossing up a halfpenny...
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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Civilization

Orestes Augustus Brownson - Literature - 1884 - 604 pages
...last conversation, with your violent tirades against the democracy of the country." " My dear Dick, it is one of the most difficult things in the world to make a despot understand how we can oppose despotism without opposing authority, or a democrat understand...
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Works, Volume 1

John Ruskin - 1887 - 516 pages
...violation of truth, of which the reason, as in the last case, is the painter's consciousness of weakness. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to express the light reflection of the blue sky on a distant ripple, and to make the eye understand the...
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Proceedings of the Meeting of the Convention of American ..., Issues 11-12

Convention of American Instructors of the Deaf - Deaf - 1887 - 746 pages
...have convention after convention, the sign language seems to be more easily adapted to translation. It is one of the most difficult things in the world to take the thoughts of one man as he expresses them in one language, and translate it rapidly and clearly...
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Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Volume 7

American Institute of Electrical Engineers - Electric engineering - 1890 - 564 pages
...PUPIN: — I would like to ask Prof. Anthony to define the term electromotive force. PROF. ANTHONY: — It is one of the most difficult things in the world to give the definition, and I never pretended to any ability at giving definitions. We all know that in...
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Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Volume 7

American Institute of Electrical Engineers - Electric engineering - 1890 - 582 pages
...: — I would like to ask Prof. Anthony to define the term electromotive force. PROF. ANTHONY: — It is one of the most difficult things in the world to give the definition, and 1 never pretended to any ability at giving definitions. We all know that in...
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The Province of Expression: A Search for Principles Underlying Adequate ...

Samuel Silas Curry - Expression - 1891 - 472 pages
...intention regarding his own body and his own being. When this normal action is once perverted by bad habit, it is one of the most difficult things in the world to restore it. One reason for this difficulty is, that habit so perverts a human being that consciousness...
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Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education, Volume 50

1891 - 844 pages
...more unsatisfactory state than the shorthmd labor market. Every employer of labor will tell you that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to get hold of a thoroughly competent ihorthand clerk, and too many competent shorthand clerks have good...
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All the Year Round

1892 - 826 pages
...conceding that all "penny dreadfuls" are sensational, the concession has nothing to do with the fact that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to write a good sensational story; or, if anything, the concession goes to prove my point. It is, probably,...
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