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... things the better ; the special merit of mathematics is that you can sit in your own room and spin it like a spider out of your own inside without ever even looking out of the window . Mathe- matical theorems have a certain beauty of ...
... things the better ; the special merit of mathematics is that you can sit in your own room and spin it like a spider out of your own inside without ever even looking out of the window . Mathe- matical theorems have a certain beauty of ...
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... glory too ; but as the measure of glory is the amount it will fetch in the Church or at the Bar , it comes to very much the same thing . A Fellowship may be reckoned as worth 2,500l . on an average . The prospect of Mathematics . 37.
... glory too ; but as the measure of glory is the amount it will fetch in the Church or at the Bar , it comes to very much the same thing . A Fellowship may be reckoned as worth 2,500l . on an average . The prospect of Mathematics . 37.
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... things . I hope they may be successful . Meanwhile , it will perhaps be evident why I said a few pages back that some people thought the intellectual training of the captain of a boat - club better than that -56 Sketches from Cambridge .
... things . I hope they may be successful . Meanwhile , it will perhaps be evident why I said a few pages back that some people thought the intellectual training of the captain of a boat - club better than that -56 Sketches from Cambridge .
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... things thus learnt naturally run off a man's mind , like water off a duck's back , and on looking at them impartially , I am much inclined to think it the best thing they can do . VI . THE UNION . In describing the intellectual and ...
... things thus learnt naturally run off a man's mind , like water off a duck's back , and on looking at them impartially , I am much inclined to think it the best thing they can do . VI . THE UNION . In describing the intellectual and ...
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... He cherishes a real conviction that to make a speech in public is the same thing as to make a fool of yourself ; he assumes , at any rate , that an orator may be pre- sumed to be a fool until he has proved the 5 The Union . 65.
... He cherishes a real conviction that to make a speech in public is the same thing as to make a fool of yourself ; he assumes , at any rate , that an orator may be pre- sumed to be a fool until he has proved the 5 The Union . 65.
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