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... difficulty may not prove insurmountable if it is fairly faced . If union in some forms should prove impossible , it may be found possible in other forms . What great difficulty would there be , for example , in the establishment of a ...
... difficulty may not prove insurmountable if it is fairly faced . If union in some forms should prove impossible , it may be found possible in other forms . What great difficulty would there be , for example , in the establishment of a ...
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... university dis- tinction should be one of the chief difficulties with which the poor student has to contend . The proportion of graduates to non - graduates is far greater in Germany than in 38 The University of Berlin .
... university dis- tinction should be one of the chief difficulties with which the poor student has to contend . The proportion of graduates to non - graduates is far greater in Germany than in 38 The University of Berlin .
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... difficulty in satisfying the London examiners at any exa- mination for a university degree . The extent of their reading might be wider than that of the candidates who would surpass them ; but the results of it would be potentially and ...
... difficulty in satisfying the London examiners at any exa- mination for a university degree . The extent of their reading might be wider than that of the candidates who would surpass them ; but the results of it would be potentially and ...
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... difficulty for us to understand how it should be that the state of German society , or that of Swiss society , should be so essentially different as to make that possible , practicable , and easy there which is impossible in this ...
... difficulty for us to understand how it should be that the state of German society , or that of Swiss society , should be so essentially different as to make that possible , practicable , and easy there which is impossible in this ...
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... difficulties in the way are sufficiently formidable to induce us to make the pressure on individual freedom and the interference with social and eco- nomic facts as slight as we can . We should be contented , therefore , with a ...
... difficulties in the way are sufficiently formidable to induce us to make the pressure on individual freedom and the interference with social and eco- nomic facts as slight as we can . We should be contented , therefore , with a ...
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Page 111 - Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great ; With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between ; in doubt to act or rest ; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast...
Page 111 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Page 196 - Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May. Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love. O, if Jove's will Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate Foretell my hopeless doom, in some grove nigh ; 10 As thou from year to year hast sung too late For my relief, yet hadst no reason why.
Page 5 - Magazine. THE HANDBOOK OF ELECTRICITY, MAGNETISM, and ACOUSTICS. New Edition. Edited by GEO. CAREY FOSTER, BA, FCS With 400 Illustrations. Post 8vo, 5^. cloth. " The book could not have been entrusted to any one better calculated to preserve the terse and lucid style of Lardner, while correcting his errors and bringing up his work to the present state of scientific knowledge.
Page 29 - It lies in heaven, across the flood Of ether, as a bridge. Beneath, the tides of day and night With flame and darkness ridge The void, as low as where this earth Spins like a fretful midge.
Page 9 - Englishman's Greek Concordance of the New Testament : Being an Attempt at a Verbal Connexion between the Greek and the English Texts ; including a Concordance to the Proper Names, with Indexes, GreekEnglish and English-Greek.
Page 57 - HODGSON -MYTHOLOGY FOR LATIN VERSIFICATION. A brief Sketch of the Fables of the Ancients, prepared to be rendered into Latin Verse for Schools.
Page 191 - Diagrams of the Nerves of the Human Body, exhibiting their Origin, Divisions, and Connexions, with their Distribution to the various Regions of the Cutaneous Surface, and to all the Muscles. By WILLIAM H.
Page 11 - OPERA, Edited by JM MARSHALL, MA Fellow and late Lecturer of Brasenose College, Oxford ; one of the Masters in Clifton College.
Page 6 - Things: Fire — Locomotion and Transport, their Influence and Progress — The Moon — Common Things : the Earth — The Electric Telegraph — Terrestrial Heat — The Sun — Earthquakes and Volcanoes — Barometer, Safety Lamp, and Whitworth's Micrometric Apparatus — Steam— The Steam Engine— The Eye— The Atmosphere— Time — Common Things...