Thoughts on Self-culture Addressed to WomenSimpkin, Marshall & Company, 1872 - 379 pagine |
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Pagina v
... KNOWLEDGE Desire of knowledge ; a natural impulse requires cultivation , 308. - Its influence on the mind , 308. - Low state in the present day , 309.- Knowledge thought useless when it brings no worldly advantage , 310. - Effects of ...
... KNOWLEDGE Desire of knowledge ; a natural impulse requires cultivation , 308. - Its influence on the mind , 308. - Low state in the present day , 309.- Knowledge thought useless when it brings no worldly advantage , 310. - Effects of ...
Pagina 5
... Knowledge has spread , ancient prejudices have fallen , and are falling before it ; female education has been unfettered ; while a long peace has left undisturbed the work of refinement and progress . Everything , therefore , seems most ...
... Knowledge has spread , ancient prejudices have fallen , and are falling before it ; female education has been unfettered ; while a long peace has left undisturbed the work of refinement and progress . Everything , therefore , seems most ...
Pagina 7
... knowledge for something more than its market value - to feel that expansion of soul that earnest natures feel when some new aspect of truth is revealed to them ? Or , in this age of liberalism , are they taught what man really owes to ...
... knowledge for something more than its market value - to feel that expansion of soul that earnest natures feel when some new aspect of truth is revealed to them ? Or , in this age of liberalism , are they taught what man really owes to ...
Pagina 9
... knowledge , but to its whole scope and purpose . These require to be corrected and enlarged before knowledge itself could produce its proper effects , and the greater the pretension of the system now in vogue , the more reprobation does ...
... knowledge , but to its whole scope and purpose . These require to be corrected and enlarged before knowledge itself could produce its proper effects , and the greater the pretension of the system now in vogue , the more reprobation does ...
Pagina 10
... knowledge was rare , and only to be attained by a struggle , and cherished as a secret treasure , ordinary minds incapable of the effort were at least humble in their ignorance ; but when the semblance of knowledge spreads , there is a ...
... knowledge was rare , and only to be attained by a struggle , and cherished as a secret treasure , ordinary minds incapable of the effort were at least humble in their ignorance ; but when the semblance of knowledge spreads , there is a ...
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