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Page 21
... knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me doubtful of his discernment in the productions of our own day : no one could attach so great a value to that work who had an intimate knowledge of ...
... knowledge of Elizabethan literature , his inordinate admiration for Esther Waters made me doubtful of his discernment in the productions of our own day : no one could attach so great a value to that work who had an intimate knowledge of ...
Page 71
... knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me the ...
... knowledge of science and scientific method . Till then I had been concerned only with art and literature . It was a very limited knowledge , for the demands of the curriculum at that time were small , but at all events it showed me the ...
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... knowledge into a smaller number . Fifteen years later they returned and their camels carried but five hundred works . In these volumes , they told the king , you will find all the wisdom of the world . But there were still too many and ...
... knowledge into a smaller number . Fifteen years later they returned and their camels carried but five hundred works . In these volumes , they told the king , you will find all the wisdom of the world . But there were still too many and ...
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