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Under the deep, inscrutable; and there
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HENRY JAMES Be not afraid of life believe that life is worth living and your belief will create the fact. HENRY JAMES Never say you know the last word about any human heart. HENRY JAMES By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any stud... JAMES HENRY BREASTED There is but little room for doubt that Egypt led the way in the creation of the earliest known grou... JAMES HENRY BREASTED In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for t... JAMES HENRY BREASTED Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress wi... JAMES HENRY BREASTED Life's to short for chess. HENRY JAMES BYRON Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress wit... JAMES HENRY BREASTED Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always... HENRY JAMES, JR. We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of ... JAMES HENRY BREASTED It is the recognition of history as a record of human experience which has inevitably resulted in th... JAMES HENRY BREASTED When the injured humerus is accompanied by a serious rupture of the overlying soft tissue the injury... JAMES HENRY BREASTED [...] we have in our treatise a series of fifty-seven examinations, almost exclusively of injuries o... JAMES HENRY BREASTED The attention given to the side of the head which has received the injury, in connection with a spec... JAMES HENRY BREASTED Speechlessness, however, affirmed in the diagnosis, is carefully based on the facts of the examinati... JAMES HENRY BREASTED Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations i... JAMES HENRY BREASTED [...] the success of Egyptian surgery in setting broken bones is very fully demonstrated in the larg... JAMES HENRY BREASTED It is this conception of the unity of the human career which is perhaps the greatest achievement of ... JAMES HENRY BREASTED Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of whi... JAMES HENRY BREASTED Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce; that ... HENRY JAMES SR. There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressiv... JAMES HENRY BREASTED To the present writer a careful study of the facts now available seems to leave no doubt that civili... JAMES HENRY BREASTED But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities alo... JAMES HENRY BREASTED the distinction between nerves and vessels was not demonstrated until the Third Century B.C., when i... JAMES HENRY BREASTED Increase Mather, President of Harvard University, in his treatise on Remarkable Providences, insists... 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