 | William Benton Chamberlain - 1897 - 516 páginas
...obtained ; although ordinary and vulgar power may, in human affairs, lie lost as it has been won; yet it is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge,...multiple of its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments, helps to new conquests. Its whole abundant harvest is but so much seed wheat,... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 1897 - 582 páginas
...the society of fools." '' It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge," says Webster, " that what it gains it never loses. On the contrary,...multiple of its own power, all its ends become means ; all its attainments help to new conquests." Did Homer and Plato and Socrates and Virgil ever dream... | |
 | 1898 - 522 páginas
...obtained; although ordinary and vulgar power may, in human affairs, be lost as it has been won; yet it is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge...multiple of its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments help to new conquests. Its whole abundant harvest is but so much seed wheat, and... | |
 | 1900 - 448 páginas
...obtained; although ordinary and vulgar power may, in human affairs, be lost as it has been won, yet it is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge,...multiple of its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments help to new conquests. Its whole abundant harvest is but so much seed wheat, and... | |
 | 1900 - 448 páginas
...obtained; although ordinary and vulgar power may, in human affairs, be lost as it has been won, yet it is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge,...gains it never loses. On the contrary, it increases by^he multiple of its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments help to new conquests.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1901 - 88 páginas
...obtained; although ordinary and vulgar power may, in human affairs, be lost as 5 it has been won; yet it is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge...multiple of its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments, helps to new conquests. Its whole abundant harvest is but so much 10 seed wheat,... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1898 - 364 páginas
...obtained ; although ordinary and vulgar power may, in human affairs, be lost as it has been won ; yet it is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge,...multiple of its own power ; all its ends become means ; all its attainments, helps to new conquests. Its whole abundant harvest is but so much seed wheat,... | |
 | Israel C. McNeill, Samuel Adams Lynch - 1901 - 398 páginas
...affairs, be lost as it has been won ; yet it is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowl-655 edge, that what it gains it never loses. On the contrary,...multiple of its own power ; all its ends become means ;. all its attainments, helps to new conquests. Its whole abundant harvest is but so much seed wheat,... | |
 | Joseph Benson Gilder - 1902 - 346 páginas
...obtained ; although ordinary and vulgar power may, in human affairs, be lost as it has been won ; yet it is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge,...multiple of its own power ; all its ends become means ; all its attainments, helps to new conquests. Its whole abundant harvest is but so much seed wheat,... | |
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... ideas. And although kingdoms and provinces may be wrested from the hands that hold them, in the same manner they were obtained; although ordinary and vulgar power may, in human affairs, be lost as it has been won; yet it is the glorious prerogative... 
