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... deals in a light and readable way , not only with the rise of Christie's sale - rooms and the history of their early founders , but with the long series of sales of works of art , the bound catalogues of which now fill a capacious room ...
... deals in a light and readable way , not only with the rise of Christie's sale - rooms and the history of their early founders , but with the long series of sales of works of art , the bound catalogues of which now fill a capacious room ...
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... , when it has to deal with an illiterate population to whom no printed notices can be sent , and all instructions and Government regulations must be conveyed by word of mouth - perhaps to a 40 July THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
... , when it has to deal with an illiterate population to whom no printed notices can be sent , and all instructions and Government regulations must be conveyed by word of mouth - perhaps to a 40 July THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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... utilised the resources of Nature ; we know a great deal about chemistry ; our weapons of war are probably unequalled by any in the history of the world . We are not quite sure where it is 48 July THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
... utilised the resources of Nature ; we know a great deal about chemistry ; our weapons of war are probably unequalled by any in the history of the world . We are not quite sure where it is 48 July THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
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... deals with parts of the real world , and is analytical . Philosophy deals with the whole and is synthetic ( σvvoπTIKŃ ) — i.e. , taking a general survey . Its aim is to exhibit the universe as a rational system in the harmony of all its ...
... deals with parts of the real world , and is analytical . Philosophy deals with the whole and is synthetic ( σvvoπTIKŃ ) — i.e. , taking a general survey . Its aim is to exhibit the universe as a rational system in the harmony of all its ...
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... deals with mind and things - its two great prin- ciples . It is subjective , and , starting from unity , spreads out into diversity . From the personal or subjective point of view every thinking individual must attribute a certain value ...
... deals with mind and things - its two great prin- ciples . It is subjective , and , starting from unity , spreads out into diversity . From the personal or subjective point of view every thinking individual must attribute a certain value ...
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Page 247 - She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine...
Page 246 - Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind, Where branched thoughts, new grown with pleasant pain, Instead of pines shall murmur in the wind...
Page 638 - Tu regere imperio populos, Romane, memento; Hae tibi erunt artes , pacisque imponere morem , Parcere subjectis, et debellare superbos.
Page 129 - For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun? "For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
Page 241 - I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination — What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth — whether it existed before or not...
Page 236 - Vain are the thousand creeds That move men's hearts, unutterably vain; Worthless as withered weeds, Or idlest froth amid the boundless main...
Page 794 - WHEREAS it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein...
Page 814 - O Oysters,' said the Carpenter, 'You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none — And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one."* "I like the Walrus best," said Alice: "because he was a little sorry for the poor oysters.
Page 638 - Transubstantiation (or the change of the substance of bread and wine) in the Supper of the Lord, cannot be proved by holy writ, but is repugnant to the plain words of Scripture, overthroweth the nature of a Sacrament, and hath given occasion to many superstitions.
Page 814 - Compound for sins they are inclined to By damning those they have no mind to.