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... understand is why their mother tongue , when employed upon the most weighty themes , gives them no pleasure , though the same per- sons are not unwilling to read Latin plays which are translated word for word from Greek . Pray , what ...
... understand is why their mother tongue , when employed upon the most weighty themes , gives them no pleasure , though the same per- sons are not unwilling to read Latin plays which are translated word for word from Greek . Pray , what ...
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... understand ; and while I should not feel averse to any philosopher for displaying eloquence , I should still not ... understanding , but on my approval . ' for I long to be 17 ' At the outset , ' VI . ' What is the matter , then ? ' said ...
... understand ; and while I should not feel averse to any philosopher for displaying eloquence , I should still not ... understanding , but on my approval . ' for I long to be 17 ' At the outset , ' VI . ' What is the matter , then ? ' said ...
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... understand his meaning ? In natural science his deliver- ances are unoriginal and in themselves such as you do not accept . Whenever he has tried to make improvements in them , they have turned out to be corruptions . He had no skill in ...
... understand his meaning ? In natural science his deliver- ances are unoriginal and in themselves such as you do not accept . Whenever he has tried to make improvements in them , they have turned out to be corruptions . He had no skill in ...
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... understand both that pleasure in itself is matter for desire and that pain is in itself matter for aversion . So they say that there lies in our minds a kind of natural and inbred conception leading us to feel that the one thing is fit ...
... understand both that pleasure in itself is matter for desire and that pain is in itself matter for aversion . So they say that there lies in our minds a kind of natural and inbred conception leading us to feel that the one thing is fit ...
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... understand to be possible , but often see it realised , and it is plain that nothing can be found more conducive to pleasantness of life than union of this kind . From all these different views we may conclude that not only are the ...
... understand to be possible , but often see it realised , and it is plain that nothing can be found more conducive to pleasantness of life than union of this kind . From all these different views we may conclude that not only are the ...
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