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... gives an anecdote told by Edison which well illustrates his untiring energy and phenomenal endur- In describing his Boston experience Edison ance . From a photograph by W. K. L. Dickson . IL TWO GIANTS OF THE ELECTRIC AGE . 43.
... gives an anecdote told by Edison which well illustrates his untiring energy and phenomenal endur- In describing his Boston experience Edison ance . From a photograph by W. K. L. Dickson . IL TWO GIANTS OF THE ELECTRIC AGE . 43.
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... experience , as well as oft - repeated expressions of cynecism under the sense of injustice , he is always ready with sympathy and an open hand . When he feels himself injured he is bit- ter for a time , but this passes away unless fed ...
... experience , as well as oft - repeated expressions of cynecism under the sense of injustice , he is always ready with sympathy and an open hand . When he feels himself injured he is bit- ter for a time , but this passes away unless fed ...
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... experience , however odd or trivial , may start a good idea in a fertile imagination , espe- cially if it be primed with knowledge and quickened by the act of reading or writing . In 1874 Sir Will- iam began an article in Good Words on ...
... experience , however odd or trivial , may start a good idea in a fertile imagination , espe- cially if it be primed with knowledge and quickened by the act of reading or writing . In 1874 Sir Will- iam began an article in Good Words on ...
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... experience swift and strange associations of ideas ; in dreams all men commonly exhibit more vivid powers of imagi- nation than are possessed by the greatest artists when awake . Sober plodding will is quite another quality , and its ...
... experience swift and strange associations of ideas ; in dreams all men commonly exhibit more vivid powers of imagi- nation than are possessed by the greatest artists when awake . Sober plodding will is quite another quality , and its ...
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... experience of the world , there is , nevertheless , a certain childlike inno- cence and simplicity in Lord Kelvin which , if not a mark of true genius , is often found along with it . A small and vulgar nature , cunning in worldly wiles ...
... experience of the world , there is , nevertheless , a certain childlike inno- cence and simplicity in Lord Kelvin which , if not a mark of true genius , is often found along with it . A small and vulgar nature , cunning in worldly wiles ...
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Page 407 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Page 222 - Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.
Page 247 - Republican protection as a fraud, a robbery of the great majority of the American people for the benefit of the few. We declare it to be a fundamental principle of the Democratic party that the Federal Government has no constitutional power to impose and collect tariff duties, except for the purpose of revenue only, and we demand that the collection of such taxes shall be limited to the necessities of the Government when honestly and economically administered.
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Page 58 - It is also impossible to conceive either the beginning or the continuance of life, without an overruling creative power ; and, therefore, no conclusions of dynamical science regarding the future condition of the earth can be held to give dispiriting views as to the destiny of the race of intelligent beings by which it is at present inhabited.
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Page 247 - ... must be determined by the General Assembly, elected by and in sympathy with the people, and to them is relegated the subject to take such action as they may deem just and best in the matter, maintaining the present law in those portions of the State where it is now or can be made efficient and giving to the localities such methods of controlling and regulating the liquor traffic as will best serve the cause of temperance and morality.
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Page 189 - For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth : and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.