Knowledge is Power: A Guide to Personal CultureHutchinson, 1935 - 360 pages |
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... young mind — was it a thousand years ago , or only yesterday ? Could I really have been so very wise and so very idealistic when I was twenty - one , or thereabouts ? Or have I lost the angelic vision after a world war and other ...
... young mind — was it a thousand years ago , or only yesterday ? Could I really have been so very wise and so very idealistic when I was twenty - one , or thereabouts ? Or have I lost the angelic vision after a world war and other ...
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... young man , deploring his own ignorance , is conscious of an immeasurable gulf between himself and this cultured acquaintance . It is not a gulf caused by wealth or social position , but a superiority of mental attainments . Our young ...
... young man , deploring his own ignorance , is conscious of an immeasurable gulf between himself and this cultured acquaintance . It is not a gulf caused by wealth or social position , but a superiority of mental attainments . Our young ...
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... young intellectuals of Florence . There was at that time in the city on the Arno a little band of poets , young men of noble families , who were the creators of that dolce stil nuovo , of that sweet new style , the sonnet , and Dante by ...
... young intellectuals of Florence . There was at that time in the city on the Arno a little band of poets , young men of noble families , who were the creators of that dolce stil nuovo , of that sweet new style , the sonnet , and Dante by ...
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