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An Inaugural Lecture on Botany: Considered as a Science, and as a Branch of ... - Page 22
by Edward Forbes - 1843 - 23 pages
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THE NEW HISTORY ESSAY ILLUSTRATING THE MODERN HISTORICAL OUTLOOK

JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON - 1913 - 284 pages
...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ... or a shop for profit and sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of...
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Book I. The republic of letters

John Morley - 1917 - 414 pages
...account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of men. As if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace with a fair prospect . . . but not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of...
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Studies in Philology, Volume 16

1919 - 410 pages
...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of mankind: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of...
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Studies in Philology, Volume 16

1919 - 398 pages
...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of mankind : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not di tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of...
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The Works of Lord Morley, Volume 1

John Morley - 1921 - 402 pages
...account of their gift of reason for the benefit and use of men. As if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace with a fair prospect ... but not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's...
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Economic Motives: A Study in the Psychological Foundations of ..., Volume 26

Zenas Clark Dickinson - 1922 - 328 pages
...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a lower of...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 29

1851 - 648 pages
...account of these gifts of reason to the benefit and use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wundering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud...
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The Uses of Literacy

Richard Hoggart - 372 pages
...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in know-ledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of...
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men:0 as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering0 and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud...
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