Scientific Lectures and EssaysMacmillan, 1893 - Broj stranica: 336 |
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... question , and that the one which pleases you ? That you do not take up your opinions at second hand , from some book or some newspaper , which after all only reflects your own feelings , your own opinions ? You should ask yourselves ...
... question , and that the one which pleases you ? That you do not take up your opinions at second hand , from some book or some newspaper , which after all only reflects your own feelings , your own opinions ? You should ask yourselves ...
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... question , while any question is sure to have two sides , or perhaps three or four ; and if you only see the side which suits you , day after day , month after month , you must needs become bigoted to it . Your thoughts must needs run ...
... question , while any question is sure to have two sides , or perhaps three or four ; and if you only see the side which suits you , day after day , month after month , you must needs become bigoted to it . Your thoughts must needs run ...
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... questions about you , save , first - Is he an honest student of Nature for her own sake ? And next - Is he a man who will not quarrel , or other- SC . wise behave in an unbrotherly fashion to his fellow- students PREFACE . 17.
... questions about you , save , first - Is he an honest student of Nature for her own sake ? And next - Is he a man who will not quarrel , or other- SC . wise behave in an unbrotherly fashion to his fellow- students PREFACE . 17.
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... at both sides of a question ; who , instead of making up their minds in haste like bigots and fanatics , wait like wise men , for more facts , and more thought about the facts . In one word , men who c 2 PREFACE . 19.
... at both sides of a question ; who , instead of making up their minds in haste like bigots and fanatics , wait like wise men , for more facts , and more thought about the facts . In one word , men who c 2 PREFACE . 19.
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... questions therefore , I say , I entreat you to cultivate the scientific spirit by which alone you can judge justly of those questions . I ask you to learn how to " conquer nature by obeying her , " as the great Lord Bacon said two ...
... questions therefore , I say , I entreat you to cultivate the scientific spirit by which alone you can judge justly of those questions . I ask you to learn how to " conquer nature by obeying her , " as the great Lord Bacon said two ...
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Stranica 278 - I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
Stranica 312 - While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease.
Stranica 3 - Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Stranica 11 - Iron sharpeneth iron ; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.
Stranica 317 - My substance, was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, did see my substance, yet being imperfect ; and, in thy book, all my members, were written, which, in continuance, were fashioned, when, as yet, there was none of them.
Stranica 207 - As a huge stone is sometimes seen to lie Couched on the bald top of an eminence; Wonder to all who do the same espy, By what means it could thither come, and whence; So that it seems a thing endued with sense : Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself...
Stranica 319 - Move upward, working out the beast, And let the ape and tiger die.
Stranica 247 - No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier.
Stranica 277 - Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
Stranica 299 - For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things which are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.