Comparative Essays Present and PastWarren W. Read |
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Page 100
... present fabric of our society and the present course of events do point . But the mind , once prepared for the reign of principles , will easily find modes of expressing its will . There is the highest fitness in the place and time in ...
... present fabric of our society and the present course of events do point . But the mind , once prepared for the reign of principles , will easily find modes of expressing its will . There is the highest fitness in the place and time in ...
Page 156
... present wit ; and if he read little , he had need have much cun- ning , to seem to know that he doth not . Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able ...
... present wit ; and if he read little , he had need have much cun- ning , to seem to know that he doth not . Histories make men wise ; poets witty ; the mathematics subtile ; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave ; logic and rhetoric able ...
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... present ? And without vision the people perish ! Why , the age is so practical that the word " visionary " has actually a slighting significance . And yet the really great practical administrators have all had vision - men like Cæsar ...
... present ? And without vision the people perish ! Why , the age is so practical that the word " visionary " has actually a slighting significance . And yet the really great practical administrators have all had vision - men like Cæsar ...
Contents
ON GOING A JOURNEY William Hazlitt | 7 |
HOLIDAY John Galsworthy | 18 |
OF FRIENDSHIP Francis Bacon | 25 |
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