Selected Literary and Political Papers and Addresses of Woodrow Wilson, Volume 3Grosset & Dunlap, 1921 - United States |
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... seem to be high time to consider its value , as illustrative of an art about to be lost , if not as exemplary of forces to be retained , even if modified . Are not our college class - rooms , in being robbed of the old - time lecture ...
... seem to be high time to consider its value , as illustrative of an art about to be lost , if not as exemplary of forces to be retained , even if modified . Are not our college class - rooms , in being robbed of the old - time lecture ...
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... seem to be good policy to endure much indifferent lecturing - watchful trustees might reduce it to a minimum - for the sake of leaving places open for the men who have in them the inestimable force of chastened elo- quence . For one man ...
... seem to be good policy to endure much indifferent lecturing - watchful trustees might reduce it to a minimum - for the sake of leaving places open for the men who have in them the inestimable force of chastened elo- quence . For one man ...
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... seem to be , to study the art of the old masters of learned discourse . With Lanfranc one could get the infinite charm of the old monastic school life ; with Abelard , the undying excitement of philosophical and religious controversy ...
... seem to be , to study the art of the old masters of learned discourse . With Lanfranc one could get the infinite charm of the old monastic school life ; with Abelard , the undying excitement of philosophical and religious controversy ...
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... seems to have owed his ad- vancement in the literary , or , rather , in the university , world . Acting upon the advice of Lord Kames , an eminent barrister and a man of some standing in the history of philosophy , he volunteered a ...
... seems to have owed his ad- vancement in the literary , or , rather , in the university , world . Acting upon the advice of Lord Kames , an eminent barrister and a man of some standing in the history of philosophy , he volunteered a ...
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... seems to have been the most inclusive of general terms in the university usage of Scotland at that day , and , indeed , for many years afterwards . Apparently it em- braced all philosophy that did not directly con- cern the phenomena of ...
... seems to have been the most inclusive of general terms in the university usage of Scotland at that day , and , indeed , for many years afterwards . Apparently it em- braced all philosophy that did not directly con- cern the phenomena of ...
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Page 88 - Among the bowers of paradise itself) The budding rose above the rose full blown. What temper at the prospect did not wake To happiness unthought of?
Page 107 - Britain, whole within herself, A nation yet, the rulers and the ruled — Some sense of duty, something of a faith, Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made, Some patient force to change them when we will, Some civic manhood firm against the crowd...