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... interest yourself at least , in academic , that is to say , in insoluble questions . An academic question is one which has no interest for the practical man , just because it is insoluble ; you are here to be unpractical and to attempt ...
... interest yourself at least , in academic , that is to say , in insoluble questions . An academic question is one which has no interest for the practical man , just because it is insoluble ; you are here to be unpractical and to attempt ...
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... interest you here ; ( b ) it is also the academic tone and turn of mind which you are to imbibe ; and what is that ? It is , in the first place , the critical tone as opposed to the com- mercial . You are not here to boost and boom ...
... interest you here ; ( b ) it is also the academic tone and turn of mind which you are to imbibe ; and what is that ? It is , in the first place , the critical tone as opposed to the com- mercial . You are not here to boost and boom ...
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... interest in the excursions and the hospitality with which the delegates were received have , however , never been surpassed in the thirty years ' history of the Congress , not even at the famous Russian Congress , whose champagne ...
... interest in the excursions and the hospitality with which the delegates were received have , however , never been surpassed in the thirty years ' history of the Congress , not even at the famous Russian Congress , whose champagne ...
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... the Republic . Our return from Colima to Zapotlan , in magnificent weather , was full of interest , but need not be particularly described . Many of us joined the next excursion , from the THE GEOLOGICAL CONG CONGRESS IN MEXICO.
... the Republic . Our return from Colima to Zapotlan , in magnificent weather , was full of interest , but need not be particularly described . Many of us joined the next excursion , from the THE GEOLOGICAL CONG CONGRESS IN MEXICO.
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... interest- ing and often beautiful church , planted beside the plaza with its trees . and its central fountain ; and this seems to form the heart of the com- munity . I should be glad if even our larger cities had as original and noble a ...
... interest- ing and often beautiful church , planted beside the plaza with its trees . and its central fountain ; and this seems to form the heart of the com- munity . I should be glad if even our larger cities had as original and noble a ...
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Page 70 - I remember, I remember Where I was used to swing, And thought the air must rush as fresh To swallows on the wing ; My spirit flew in feathers then That is so heavy now, And summer pools could hardly cool The fever on my brow. I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky : It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven Than when I was a boy.
Page 111 - On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend Above the rolling ball in cloud part screened, Where sinners hugged their spectre of repose.
Page 166 - There's a breathless hush in the Close to-night — Ten to make and the match to win — A bumping pitch and a blinding light, An hour to play and the last man in. And it's not for the sake of a ribboned coat, Or the selfish hope of a season's fame, But his Captain's hand on his shoulder smote — " Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 111 - For them the Ceylon diver held his breath, And went all naked to the hungry shark; For them his ears gush'd blood; for them in death The seal on the cold ice with piteous bark Lay full of darts; for them alone did seethe A thousand men in troubles wide and dark : Half-ignorant, they turn'd an easy wheel, That set sharp racks at work, to pinch and peel.
Page 167 - Play up! play up! and play the game!' The sand of the desert is sodden red, — Red with the wreck of a square that broke; The Catling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks. And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!
Page 70 - Evolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion ; during which the matter passes from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity ; and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation.
Page 111 - Poor prey to his hot fit of pride were those. And now upon his western wing he leaned, Now his huge bulk o'er Afric's sands careened, Now the black planet shadowed Arctic snows. Soaring through wider zones that pricked his scars With memory of the old revolt from Awe...
Page 71 - Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind...
Page 144 - Ecce, renascentis testatur gratia mundi Omnia cum Domino dona redisse suo. Namque triumphanti post tristia tartara Christo Undique fronde nemus, gramina flore favent.
Page 120 - How is it that the United States can afford to pay half a dollar in wages where we pay a shilling, and yet compete with us in the markets of the world?