A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1872 - 511 páginas |
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... attempts at oral proselytism , or whether they commit themselves to the press , do not reflect that they have ceased to stand upon the ground on which their process is defensible . As- piring to lead others , they have never given ...
... attempts at oral proselytism , or whether they commit themselves to the press , do not reflect that they have ceased to stand upon the ground on which their process is defensible . As- piring to lead others , they have never given ...
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... Attempt by help of the old philosophy , the discoverer not being in possession of modern knowledge . A poor schoolmaster , in rags , introduced himself to a scientific friend with whom I was talking , and announced that he had found out ...
... Attempt by help of the old philosophy , the discoverer not being in possession of modern knowledge . A poor schoolmaster , in rags , introduced himself to a scientific friend with whom I was talking , and announced that he had found out ...
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... attempt . at thought that they are shocked at ridicule even of those who have made themselves conspicuous by pretending to lead the world in matters which they have not studied . Among my anonymes is a gentleman who is angry at my ...
... attempt . at thought that they are shocked at ridicule even of those who have made themselves conspicuous by pretending to lead the world in matters which they have not studied . Among my anonymes is a gentleman who is angry at my ...
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... attempt at humour , and glaringly exhibits the feelings of a disappointed man . It is probable , he adds , that the points told with some effect on the Society ; for shortly after its publica- tion the Transactions possess a much higher ...
... attempt at humour , and glaringly exhibits the feelings of a disappointed man . It is probable , he adds , that the points told with some effect on the Society ; for shortly after its publica- tion the Transactions possess a much higher ...
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... attempt to create a kind of order of knighthood is an ab- surdity so glaring that it should always be kept before the general eye . This distinction , this mark set by science upon successful investigation , is of necessity a class ...
... attempt to create a kind of order of knighthood is an ab- surdity so glaring that it should always be kept before the general eye . This distinction , this mark set by science upon successful investigation , is of necessity a class ...
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Página 16 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.