 All his wealth is in paper, — paper like bad scrip, marked with a high nominal amount, but useless in exchange and repudiated in real traffic. The great scholar is often an intellectual miser, who expends the spiritual energy that might make him a hero,...  Commerce, Literature and Art: A Discourse - Página 20por Brantz Mayer - 1848 - 52 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1870 - 536 páginas
...high nominal amount, but useless in exchange, and repudiated in real traffic. The great scholar is too often an intellectual miser, who expends the spiritual...wrong dot, a false syllable, or an inaccurate word. It is a trite remark that words are the representatives of things and thoughts, as coin represents... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1870 - 524 páginas
...high nominal amount, but useless in exchange, and repudiated in real traffic. The great scholar is too often an intellectual miser, who expends the spiritual...wrong dot, a false syllable, or an inaccurate word. It is a trite remark that words are the representatives of things and thoughts, as coin represents... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 408 páginas
...bad scrip, marked with a high nominal amount, but useless in exchange and repudiated in real traffic. The great scholar is often an intellectual miser,...wrong dot, a false syllable, or an inaccurate word. In this country, where fluency of speech is vouchsafed in so large a measure to the people, and every... | |
 | William Mathews - 1876 - 474 páginas
...marked with a high nominal amount, but useless in exchange and repudiated in real traffic. The great 7* scholar is often an intellectual miser, who expends...wrong dot, a false syllable, or an inaccurate word. In this country, where fluency of speech is vouchsafed in so large a measure to the people, and every... | |
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