John Stuart Blackie: A Biography, Volumen1W. Blackwood, 1895 |
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... thought , a turn for philosophical speculation , and freedom from all narrow ideas . He had great sagacity and knowledge of the world . My mother died when I was ten years old , and I remember her only as everything that was womanly and ...
... thought , a turn for philosophical speculation , and freedom from all narrow ideas . He had great sagacity and knowledge of the world . My mother died when I was ten years old , and I remember her only as everything that was womanly and ...
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... thoughts . Her uncle was a man of ability , loving Greek , Latin , and French , and having some taste for research . He was able to help Sir John Sinclair in The Statistical Account of Scotland , ' and wrote several books himself . We ...
... thoughts . Her uncle was a man of ability , loving Greek , Latin , and French , and having some taste for research . He was able to help Sir John Sinclair in The Statistical Account of Scotland , ' and wrote several books himself . We ...
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... thought to teach him with a box of ivory letters , and arranged them as toys full of promise ; but John flung them out of the window , and declined to be fooled into lessons . In the same year , however , a new school was opened in ...
... thought to teach him with a box of ivory letters , and arranged them as toys full of promise ; but John flung them out of the window , and declined to be fooled into lessons . In the same year , however , a new school was opened in ...
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... thoughts display much depth , for he was more concerned with the phrasing than with the sentiment ; but the ease with which he criticised the essays and discourses of the students in flowing Latin , stimulated them to follow his example ...
... thoughts display much depth , for he was more concerned with the phrasing than with the sentiment ; but the ease with which he criticised the essays and discourses of the students in flowing Latin , stimulated them to follow his example ...
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... thought . One of his students has given it on record that in four years of lectures he never once heard the name of Jesus Christ ; but then he was an Evangelical , and clearly expected too much . John Blackie was eager to learn , and so ...
... thought . One of his students has given it on record that in four years of lectures he never once heard the name of Jesus Christ ; but then he was an Evangelical , and clearly expected too much . John Blackie was eager to learn , and so ...
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