Word: diversities
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Divers contests.- Bicycle races, tennis, cricket, and golf matches.
I will not say with the Emperor Charles V. that a man is as many men as he knows languages, and still less with Lord Burleigh that such polyglottism is but "to have one meat served in divers dishes." But I think that to know the literature of another language...
Many-sidedness is the essence of culture and it matters less what a man learns than how he learns it. The day will come, nay, it is dawning already, when it will be understood that the masterpieces of whatever language are not to be classed by an arbitrary standard, but...
In the words of Professor Richet "the alliance will establish between the members of the divers universities, professors or students, a union founded upon relations more frequent and consequently more cordial. It will attenuate the differences in scholarship, by securing a certain equivalence or equality of studies, and level the...
Especially is criticism a comparative science demanding the contemporaneous presence in the memory of many conclusions arrived at through much mistake, much change of opinions adopted on a too narrow basis of facts for a true induction. Impartiality of judgment is incompatible with anything but entireness of view, and that...