“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself, and in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason? You have been given the principles that you ought to endorse, and you have endorsed them. What kind of teacher, then, are you still waiting for in order to refer your self-improvement to him? You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now, and keep putting things off and always deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself, you will not notice that you are making no progress, but you will live and die as someone quite ordinary..."
- What does " in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason" mean?
- "deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself"
deferring [the day after], which you will attend to yourself
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deferring the day, after which you will attend to yourself?
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XVI - What does " in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason" mean? Something like "Always be guided by reason". XVI - "deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself" "the day after which you will attend to yourself" is a noun phrase.
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XVI- What does " in no instance bypass the discriminations of reason" mean?
Something like "Always be guided by reason".
XVI- "deferring the day after which you will attend to yourself"
"the day after which you will attend to yourself" is a noun phrase. "after which you will attend to yourself" modifies "day", i.e.