Letters to 'The Times', 1884-1922private circulation, 1927 - 284 páginas |
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... give help and advice , he waited to be asked . His library was at any one's disposal , his study door was always open ; he was perfectly unstinting of his own time , while he took every opportunity that the condition of the College ...
... give help and advice , he waited to be asked . His library was at any one's disposal , his study door was always open ; he was perfectly unstinting of his own time , while he took every opportunity that the condition of the College ...
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... give the benefit of his reflections and observations to mankind . Truth and the common good were his passions ; yet he was never carried away by his convictions ; in all that he wrote , as in all that he spoke , he was patient ...
... give the benefit of his reflections and observations to mankind . Truth and the common good were his passions ; yet he was never carried away by his convictions ; in all that he wrote , as in all that he spoke , he was patient ...
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... Economy in good times would give the Empire financial security in bad times . It was not guess- · work nor the gift of prophecy but merely rational INTRODUCTION 23 LETTERS ON ADMISSION OF WOMEN TO OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE, from Times of:-
... Economy in good times would give the Empire financial security in bad times . It was not guess- · work nor the gift of prophecy but merely rational INTRODUCTION 23 LETTERS ON ADMISSION OF WOMEN TO OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE, from Times of:-
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... give his scien- tific point of view , couched in his lucid , forcible language . One personal trait clearly emerges from these letters on science and philosophy , as indeed from all his letters , that is , his unfailing and charming ...
... give his scien- tific point of view , couched in his lucid , forcible language . One personal trait clearly emerges from these letters on science and philosophy , as indeed from all his letters , that is , his unfailing and charming ...
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... gives to women a special examination in part of an honour school, and awards to those who succeed a certificate of merit from the honour examiners ; whereas, if a man does not offer the whole of the subjects in an honour examination ...
... gives to women a special examination in part of an honour school, and awards to those who succeed a certificate of merit from the honour examiners ; whereas, if a man does not offer the whole of the subjects in an honour examination ...
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Página 134 - Every person who, with a view to compel any other person to abstain from doing or to do any act which such other person has a legal right to do or abstain from doing, wrongfully and without legal authority — 1.
Página 189 - We believe that the intolerable wrongs done in this war by the furious and brutal power of the Imperial German Government ought to be repaired...
Página 254 - THE views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are radical. Henceforth space by itself, and time by itself, are doomed to fade away into mere shadows, and only a kind of union of the two will preserve an independent reality.
Página 279 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand'; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Página 36 - SWEET stream, that winds through yonder glade, Apt emblem of a virtuous maid — Silent and chaste she steals along, Far from the world's gay busy throng ; • With gentle yet prevailing force, Intent upon her destined course ; Graceful and useful all she does, Blessing and blest where'er she goes. Pure-bosom'd as that watery glass, And heaven reflected in her face.
Página 279 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 274 - And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
Página 208 - might be rendered another source of revenue more abundant, perhaps, than all...
Página 279 - ... emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 121 - ... historical or philosophical. There is a narrow professional spirit which may grow up among men of science, just as it does among men who practise any other special business. But surely a University is the very place where we should be able to overcome this tendency of men to become, as it were, granulated into small worlds, which are all the more worldly for their very smallness. We lose the advantage of having men of varied pursuits collected into one body, if we do not endeavour to imbibe some...