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But another reason , I suggest , is that learning in this pure sense is detached from ourselves and therefore gives the ... If knowledge were only gained to be put to uses we could foresee , we should by now have learned very little .
But another reason , I suggest , is that learning in this pure sense is detached from ourselves and therefore gives the ... If knowledge were only gained to be put to uses we could foresee , we should by now have learned very little .
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Of the split in the Baptist congregation I learned from my landlady , one of the schismatics , or at least one who had chosen , perhaps only for sociability , to cast in her lot with that party . She was not dogmatic or heated on the ...
Of the split in the Baptist congregation I learned from my landlady , one of the schismatics , or at least one who had chosen , perhaps only for sociability , to cast in her lot with that party . She was not dogmatic or heated on the ...
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So Stevenson , in the sea fogs in the Napa Valley in California , learned something more of the sea off the coast of his native Scotland . If everything remains the same , we take all for granted and learn nothing ; and complete ...
So Stevenson , in the sea fogs in the Napa Valley in California , learned something more of the sea off the coast of his native Scotland . If everything remains the same , we take all for granted and learn nothing ; and complete ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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