The Pursuits of Leisure & Other EssaysBooks for Libraries Press, 1968 - 162 Seiten |
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... learning is a dangerous thing . ' Of course it is if , with that little learning , you try to dogmatise on everything " and want to burn at the stake everybody who 16 BOOKS AND THEIR USES.
... learning is a dangerous thing . ' Of course it is if , with that little learning , you try to dogmatise on everything " and want to burn at the stake everybody who 16 BOOKS AND THEIR USES.
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... learning is a great deal better than no know- ledge at all ; and it is all that we can hope to attain in this short life of ours . So let us be eager for that little ; not in the least intimidated by the complacent sage who claimed that ...
... learning is a great deal better than no know- ledge at all ; and it is all that we can hope to attain in this short life of ours . So let us be eager for that little ; not in the least intimidated by the complacent sage who claimed that ...
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... learning or principle or common sense . Yet such was the daily exercise of the greatest literary figure of the latter part of the mid - eighteenth century in the Club of all the talents . That it should have been pos- sible then , and ...
... learning or principle or common sense . Yet such was the daily exercise of the greatest literary figure of the latter part of the mid - eighteenth century in the Club of all the talents . That it should have been pos- sible then , and ...
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Foreword page | 1 |
Books and Their Uses | 15 |
Memoirs and Biographies | 41 |
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