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... learning is pedantry ; wit , impertinence ; and virtue itself looks like weakness ; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors , and active to his own prejudice . — Addison . — DISCRETION . The greatest parts ...
... learning is pedantry ; wit , impertinence ; and virtue itself looks like weakness ; and the best parts only qualify a man to be more sprightly in errors , and active to his own prejudice . — Addison . — DISCRETION . The greatest parts ...
Page 152
... LEARNING . - Learning is like mercury , one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskilful , the most mischievous . — Pope . LEARNING . - Learning , like money , may be of so base a coin , as to ...
... LEARNING . - Learning is like mercury , one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskilful , the most mischievous . — Pope . LEARNING . - Learning , like money , may be of so base a coin , as to ...
Page 153
... LEARNING AND THE BIBLE . - The grand sultan knows that despotism is founded on the blindness and weakness of the governed ; but that learning is light and ... LEARNING , POPULAR . - Learning once made popular is THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 153.
... LEARNING AND THE BIBLE . - The grand sultan knows that despotism is founded on the blindness and weakness of the governed ; but that learning is light and ... LEARNING , POPULAR . - Learning once made popular is THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 153.
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Tryon Edwards. LEARNING , POPULAR . - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes .-- Johnson ...
Tryon Edwards. LEARNING , POPULAR . - Learning once made popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves , as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes .-- Johnson ...
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... learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit , than in all the rest of the kingdom . - Johnson . LIFE , INFLUENCE OF ITS BREVITY . — I would have every one consider that he is , in this life , only a ...
... learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit , than in all the rest of the kingdom . - Johnson . LIFE , INFLUENCE OF ITS BREVITY . — I would have every one consider that he is , in this life , only a ...
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