Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... centuries , he has to blunder through from the beginning with no other experience than his own poor , petty life affords , then he is in no way " up to date " , in no way a twentieth - century individual , but 28 THE READING OF HISTORY.
... centuries , he has to blunder through from the beginning with no other experience than his own poor , petty life affords , then he is in no way " up to date " , in no way a twentieth - century individual , but 28 THE READING OF HISTORY.
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... century one great name marks a new epoch in literature , the name of John Milton , whose mighty verse rolls sonorous and solemn like glorious organ music , and whose sublime thoughts lift one a little nearer to the heavens , a little ...
... century one great name marks a new epoch in literature , the name of John Milton , whose mighty verse rolls sonorous and solemn like glorious organ music , and whose sublime thoughts lift one a little nearer to the heavens , a little ...
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... Century gone , But Tennyson was a son of the century just and was heir to those troublous thoughts that have come with new knowledge . In the old days men lived more in faith , or , if they doubted that the old creeds but crudely ...
... Century gone , But Tennyson was a son of the century just and was heir to those troublous thoughts that have come with new knowledge . In the old days men lived more in faith , or , if they doubted that the old creeds but crudely ...
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