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... never voluntarily become a soldier , or a man who found a difficulty in mastering the multiplication table , an accountant . man who was colour - blind might make a very good engraver or sculptor , but would be a failure as an artist ...
... never voluntarily become a soldier , or a man who found a difficulty in mastering the multiplication table , an accountant . man who was colour - blind might make a very good engraver or sculptor , but would be a failure as an artist ...
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... never judge of bodies as material substances otherwise than by the senses we possess ; in fact , it seems difficult to conceive how bodies could possess properties which we are not able to recognise by the senses we have ; but the study ...
... never judge of bodies as material substances otherwise than by the senses we possess ; in fact , it seems difficult to conceive how bodies could possess properties which we are not able to recognise by the senses we have ; but the study ...
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Frederick William Edridge-Green. never looked through an appropriate concave glass . He knows that his companions are able to see better than he does , because they are able to recognise an acquaint- ance at a much greater distance ; but ...
Frederick William Edridge-Green. never looked through an appropriate concave glass . He knows that his companions are able to see better than he does , because they are able to recognise an acquaint- ance at a much greater distance ; but ...
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... never knew her fail in a single instance , though I put this power frequently to the test of experiment . It was curious to place before her some very familiar object that she had never compared in this way , such as a pair of scissors ...
... never knew her fail in a single instance , though I put this power frequently to the test of experiment . It was curious to place before her some very familiar object that she had never compared in this way , such as a pair of scissors ...
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... never become revived , because this intensity is not attained . They remain in a latent condition , waiting for an appropriate stimulus for their revival to take place . How often the most trivial incidents are brought back , by some ...
... never become revived , because this intensity is not attained . They remain in a latent condition , waiting for an appropriate stimulus for their revival to take place . How often the most trivial incidents are brought back , by some ...
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