A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about. — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
No man saw the building of the New Jerusalem, the workmen crowded together, the unfinished walls and unpaved streets; no man heard the clink… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an appearance of… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind. — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
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