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... fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improve- ment of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating ...
... fact is , that common observers reason from the progress of the experimental sciences to that of the imitative arts . The improve- ment of the former is gradual and slow . Ages are spent in collecting materials , ages more in separating ...
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... fact , however , seems apophthegms which have been uttered , from to have been , that Machiavelli , despairing of the time of the Seven Sages of Greece to tha the liberty of Florence , was inclined to support of Poor Richard , have ...
... fact , however , seems apophthegms which have been uttered , from to have been , that Machiavelli , despairing of the time of the Seven Sages of Greece to tha the liberty of Florence , was inclined to support of Poor Richard , have ...
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... fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal The influence of the sentiments which we points , strictly true . But the numerous little have described was not apparent in his writ- incidents which heighten the interest , the ...
... fact . The relation is , no doubt , in all its principal The influence of the sentiments which we points , strictly true . But the numerous little have described was not apparent in his writ- incidents which heighten the interest , the ...
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... fact is , gether unreasonable ; but it is rather as an au- that poetry requires not an examining , but a thority on all points of philosophy , than as a believing frame of mind . Those feel it most , work of imagination , that he values ...
... fact is , gether unreasonable ; but it is rather as an au- that poetry requires not an examining , but a thority on all points of philosophy , than as a believing frame of mind . Those feel it most , work of imagination , that he values ...
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... fact is , that he had a tendency what he could not give without measure . The to bombast , which , though subsequently cor- tyrants and ruffians are merely the heroes al - rected by time and thought , was never wholly tered by a few ...
... fact is , that he had a tendency what he could not give without measure . The to bombast , which , though subsequently cor- tyrants and ruffians are merely the heroes al - rected by time and thought , was never wholly tered by a few ...
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