Other Men's Minds, Or, Seven Thousand Choice Extracts on History, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Etc: Selected from the Standard Authorship of Ancient and Modern Times, and Classified in Alphabetical Order |
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A Dedication to a In dedicating to you this volume , a consideration of a far higher nature than the formal and customary honour of addressing a man of literary and scientific attainments induced me to shelter it under your patronage .
A Dedication to a In dedicating to you this volume , a consideration of a far higher nature than the formal and customary honour of addressing a man of literary and scientific attainments induced me to shelter it under your patronage .
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A Devout Long ago it used to be said that there was a nobleman in France , in whose domains all the wood and stone , when split or hewn , bore the owner's coat of arms depicted upon them by Nature . I shall not inquire into the truth of ...
A Devout Long ago it used to be said that there was a nobleman in France , in whose domains all the wood and stone , when split or hewn , bore the owner's coat of arms depicted upon them by Nature . I shall not inquire into the truth of ...
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An eloquent English writer author of " The Beauties , Harmonies , and Sublimities of Nature , " etc. Born 1781 ; died 1847- BUCKINGHAM , JAMES S. A celebrated English traveller and temperance lecturer . Born 1786 ; died 1855 .
An eloquent English writer author of " The Beauties , Harmonies , and Sublimities of Nature , " etc. Born 1781 ; died 1847- BUCKINGHAM , JAMES S. A celebrated English traveller and temperance lecturer . Born 1786 ; died 1855 .
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Action is , so to speak , the genius of nature . - DR . BLAIR . ACTION - the Destiny of Man . Action is at once the destiny and the lot of man . All the conditions of his existence are framed upon the supposition of his ac- tivity .
Action is , so to speak , the genius of nature . - DR . BLAIR . ACTION - the Destiny of Man . Action is at once the destiny and the lot of man . All the conditions of his existence are framed upon the supposition of his ac- tivity .
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Send him to our hills , and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress , and what by a dome . There was something in the old power of architec- ture which it had from the recluse more than from the citizen .
Send him to our hills , and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress , and what by a dome . There was something in the old power of architec- ture which it had from the recluse more than from the citizen .
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