The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Volumen2C. Knight, 1831 - 427 páginas |
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Página 324 - ... verbiage of the dull books he perused, or the idle talk to which he listened ; but to have at once extracted, by a kind of intellectual alchemy, all that was worthy of attention, and to have reduced it for his own use, to its true value and to its simplest form. And thus it often happened that a great deal more was learned from his brief and vigorous account of the theories and arguments of tedious writers, than an ordinary student could ever have derived from the most...
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