College Readings in English ProseFrank William Scott, Jacob Zeitlin |
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... ourselves , is likely to be whiled away in this inconse- quential trifling with idle fancy and unsubstantial hope . In this sense , silly folk and dullards think . The story is told of a man in slight repute for intelligence , who ...
... ourselves , is likely to be whiled away in this inconse- quential trifling with idle fancy and unsubstantial hope . In this sense , silly folk and dullards think . The story is told of a man in slight repute for intelligence , who ...
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... ourselves with fancies , terminable at our pleasure , which do not lead . to any belief in particular . But to think of the world as flat is to ascribe a quality to a real thing as its real property . This conclusion denotes a ...
... ourselves with fancies , terminable at our pleasure , which do not lead . to any belief in particular . But to think of the world as flat is to ascribe a quality to a real thing as its real property . This conclusion denotes a ...
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... ourselves of the true idiom of the language . To write a genuine familiar or truly English style , is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words , or who could discourse with ...
... ourselves of the true idiom of the language . To write a genuine familiar or truly English style , is to write as any one would speak in common conversation who had a thorough command and choice of words , or who could discourse with ...
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... ourselves , they carry round oxygen in their blood , and are therefore able to grow far larger than any insect . If the insects had hit on a plan for driving air through their tissues instead of letting it soak in , they might well have ...
... ourselves , they carry round oxygen in their blood , and are therefore able to grow far larger than any insect . If the insects had hit on a plan for driving air through their tissues instead of letting it soak in , they might well have ...
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... ourselves should regard as the aims which education should have in view . From Harper's Magazine , April , 1926 . Traditional Chinese education was , in some respects , very WHAT SHALL WE EDUCATE FOR ? 93 What Shall We Educate For ...
... ourselves should regard as the aims which education should have in view . From Harper's Magazine , April , 1926 . Traditional Chinese education was , in some respects , very WHAT SHALL WE EDUCATE FOR ? 93 What Shall We Educate For ...
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