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... man of letters and of the financier been so combined . As a rule they are divorced . What was peculiar to Sir Stafford , at once his force and his limitation , was the practical character of his mind . He took theology as he.
... man of letters and of the financier been so combined . As a rule they are divorced . What was peculiar to Sir Stafford , at once his force and his limitation , was the practical character of his mind . He took theology as he.
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... mind was entirely alien to meta- physics of all sorts ; no man , it seems to his biographer , was ever less speculative . " A child of the idea " as the phrase runs , he was not . He had great capacity for business , great industry ...
... mind was entirely alien to meta- physics of all sorts ; no man , it seems to his biographer , was ever less speculative . " A child of the idea " as the phrase runs , he was not . He had great capacity for business , great industry ...
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... mind ) possibly a mere myth invented to explain the de- signs on a decorated card - table , which must have been made long after the sods were over Justice Northcote . According to the story , Justice Northcote won the manor of ...
... mind ) possibly a mere myth invented to explain the de- signs on a decorated card - table , which must have been made long after the sods were over Justice Northcote . According to the story , Justice Northcote won the manor of ...
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... mind and actions . " This was the character Northcote brought with him to Oxford , and into life . Before entering on residence at Balliol , he read for some time at Shirley , with the Rev. Mr Shirley . But it may be as well , here , to ...
... mind and actions . " This was the character Northcote brought with him to Oxford , and into life . Before entering on residence at Balliol , he read for some time at Shirley , with the Rev. Mr Shirley . But it may be as well , here , to ...
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... mind through life . Seldom has a modern man of so much intellect been so utterly unvexed by specu- lative doubts and anxieties . This freedom was part of his greatest natural gift , the gift of Happiness . He was soon , however , to be ...
... mind through life . Seldom has a modern man of so much intellect been so utterly unvexed by specu- lative doubts and anxieties . This freedom was part of his greatest natural gift , the gift of Happiness . He was soon , however , to be ...
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