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... strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of he most memorable eras in the history of man- ind ; at the very crisis of the ...
... strong family likeness . His public conduct was such as was to be expected from a man of a spirit so high , and an intellect so powerful . He lived at one of he most memorable eras in the history of man- ind ; at the very crisis of the ...
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... strong fetters fixed and motionless . " To reverse the rod , to spell the charm back- ward , to break the ties which bound a stupe- fied people to the seat of enchantment , was the noble aim of Milton . To this all his public conduct ...
... strong fetters fixed and motionless . " To reverse the rod , to spell the charm back- ward , to break the ties which bound a stupe- fied people to the seat of enchantment , was the noble aim of Milton . To this all his public conduct ...
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... strong , his taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . One hypothesis is , that Machiavelli intended to practice on the young Lorenzo de Medici a fraud , similar to that which Sunderland is said to have employed ...
... strong , his taste pure , and his sense of the ridiculous exquisitely keen . One hypothesis is , that Machiavelli intended to practice on the young Lorenzo de Medici a fraud , similar to that which Sunderland is said to have employed ...
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... strong feeling ; it takes every character , and are forgotten , in the common blaze which retains none ; its aspect is diversified , not by illuminates all . The flowers and fruits of the passions , but by faint and transitory ...
... strong feeling ; it takes every character , and are forgotten , in the common blaze which retains none ; its aspect is diversified , not by illuminates all . The flowers and fruits of the passions , but by faint and transitory ...
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... strong as in people in- capable of reasoning - savages , children , mad- men , and dreamers ; but for the purpose of en- abling the artist to communicate his concep- tions to others . In a barbarous age the imagination exercises a ...
... strong as in people in- capable of reasoning - savages , children , mad- men , and dreamers ; but for the purpose of en- abling the artist to communicate his concep- tions to others . In a barbarous age the imagination exercises a ...
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