 But the truth is that the knowledge of external nature, and the sciences which that knowledge requires or includes, are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind. Whether we provide for action or conversation, whether we wish to be useful...  Works - الصفحة 25بواسطة Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1838عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
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...subjects is sufficient, and independent reading will supply what is desired later. As Dr. Johnson said: "The knowledge of external nature and the sciences...great or the frequent business of the human mind. We are perpetually moralists but we are geometricians only by chance." Undoubtedly I lay myself open... | |
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