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... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
Page 13
... truth cease to conflict , and ury , it was because they had exacted an begin to coalesce . And at length a system of equally blind submission . justice and order is educed out of the chaos . There is only one cure for the evils which ...
... truth cease to conflict , and ury , it was because they had exacted an begin to coalesce . And at length a system of equally blind submission . justice and order is educed out of the chaos . There is only one cure for the evils which ...
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... truth in the transactions of life , he was honestly devoted to the pursuit of truth in the researches of speculation . Wanton cru- elty was not in his nature . On the contrary , where no political object was at stake , his dis- position ...
... truth in the transactions of life , he was honestly devoted to the pursuit of truth in the researches of speculation . Wanton cru- elty was not in his nature . On the contrary , where no political object was at stake , his dis- position ...
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... truth , Livy is not a historian on cal fallacies , this has had the widest and the whom much reliance can be placed , even in most mischievous operation . The state of so- cases where he must have possessed consider- ciety in the little ...
... truth , Livy is not a historian on cal fallacies , this has had the widest and the whom much reliance can be placed , even in most mischievous operation . The state of so- cases where he must have possessed consider- ciety in the little ...
Page 45
... truth of character is the first object ; the truth of place and time is to be considered only in the second place . Puff himself could tell the actor to tur out his toes , and remind him that Keeper Hat- DRYDEN . 45.
... truth of character is the first object ; the truth of place and time is to be considered only in the second place . Puff himself could tell the actor to tur out his toes , and remind him that Keeper Hat- DRYDEN . 45.
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