Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... mind , lies buried under so many millions of words I have written since . One of them was a great scholar and preacher , and I was abashed when he told me that he kept it by his bedside . Some of those essays were read over the ...
... mind , lies buried under so many millions of words I have written since . One of them was a great scholar and preacher , and I was abashed when he told me that he kept it by his bedside . Some of those essays were read over the ...
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... mind than many with whom we walk and talk , and friends of fiction so dear that we would hardly change them for ... minds , to sum up the knowledge of human nature and of the greater world that lies without the circumscribed area of our ...
... mind than many with whom we walk and talk , and friends of fiction so dear that we would hardly change them for ... minds , to sum up the knowledge of human nature and of the greater world that lies without the circumscribed area of our ...
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... mind his words : “ Read not to contradict and confute , nor to believe and take for granted , but to weigh and consider . " No one can read these Essays , which have had a mighty influence on men's minds since their first issue ...
... mind his words : “ Read not to contradict and confute , nor to believe and take for granted , but to weigh and consider . " No one can read these Essays , which have had a mighty influence on men's minds since their first issue ...
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