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... learned were comparing eyes to burning- glasses , and tears to terrestrial globes , coyness to an enthymeme , absence to a pair of com- passes , and an unrequited passion to the for- tieth remainderman in an entail , Juliet leaning from ...
... learned were comparing eyes to burning- glasses , and tears to terrestrial globes , coyness to an enthymeme , absence to a pair of com- passes , and an unrequited passion to the for- tieth remainderman in an entail , Juliet leaning from ...
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... learned from tradition and from popular bal- lads ; the manners of foreign countries from the reports of travellers . It is well known that the mystery which overhangs what is distant , either in space or time , frequently prevents us ...
... learned from tradition and from popular bal- lads ; the manners of foreign countries from the reports of travellers . It is well known that the mystery which overhangs what is distant , either in space or time , frequently prevents us ...
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... learned men , and trines of trade and jurisprudence have been , compiled its history . Yet he seems to have within the lifetime of a single generation , dimly thought its literature valuable only for the pur- hinted , boldly propounded ...
... learned men , and trines of trade and jurisprudence have been , compiled its history . Yet he seems to have within the lifetime of a single generation , dimly thought its literature valuable only for the pur- hinted , boldly propounded ...
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... learned or unlearned ; where government , where educa- tion , where the whole system of life is a cere- mony ; where knowledge forgets to increase and multiply , and , like the talent buried in the earth , or the pound wrapped up in the ...
... learned or unlearned ; where government , where educa- tion , where the whole system of life is a cere- mony ; where knowledge forgets to increase and multiply , and , like the talent buried in the earth , or the pound wrapped up in the ...
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... learned nothing new during the last sixteen hundred years . Instead of illus The best nistorians of later times have been seduced from truth , not by their imagination , but by their reason . They far excel their pre- decessors in the ...
... learned nothing new during the last sixteen hundred years . Instead of illus The best nistorians of later times have been seduced from truth , not by their imagination , but by their reason . They far excel their pre- decessors in the ...
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