Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Longmans, Green, 1895 |
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... philosopher tells us , that , though the planets be whirled about daily from east to west , by the motion of the primum mobile , yet have they also a contrary proper motion of their own from west to east , which they slowly , though ...
... philosopher tells us , that , though the planets be whirled about daily from east to west , by the motion of the primum mobile , yet have they also a contrary proper motion of their own from west to east , which they slowly , though ...
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... philosophy which afterwards threatened all the thrones and aristocracies of Europe with destruction first became formidable . The ardour with which men betook themselves to liberal studies , at the close of the fifteenth and the ...
... philosophy which afterwards threatened all the thrones and aristocracies of Europe with destruction first became formidable . The ardour with which men betook themselves to liberal studies , at the close of the fifteenth and the ...
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... philosopher , whom we picture to our- selves , sometimes reviewing the Queen's guard , some- times giving chase to a Spanish galleon , then answer- ing the chiefs of the country party in the House of Commons , then again murmuring one ...
... philosopher , whom we picture to our- selves , sometimes reviewing the Queen's guard , some- times giving chase to a Spanish galleon , then answer- ing the chiefs of the country party in the House of Commons , then again murmuring one ...
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... Philosophers , who have made the Elizabethan age a more glorious and important era in the history of the human mind than the age of Pericles , of Augustus , or of Leo . But subjects so vast require a space far larger than we can at ...
... Philosophers , who have made the Elizabethan age a more glorious and important era in the history of the human mind than the age of Pericles , of Augustus , or of Leo . But subjects so vast require a space far larger than we can at ...
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... philosophers have quite done with this maxim , and have abandoned it , like other maxims which have lost their gloss , to bad novelists , by whom it will very soon be worn to rags . It is no more than justice to say that the faults of ...
... philosophers have quite done with this maxim , and have abandoned it , like other maxims which have lost their gloss , to bad novelists , by whom it will very soon be worn to rags . It is no more than justice to say that the faults of ...
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