Essays and Dialogues of Giacomo LeopardiTrübner, 1882 - 216 pages |
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... Third Edition , revised , post 8vo , pp . 200 , cloth , 3s . 6d . AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . By the late JOHN STUART MILL , M.P. VOLS . I.-II. ] EXTRA SERIES . Two Volumes , post 8vo , pp . 348 and 374 , with Portrait , cloth , 218 ...
... Third Edition , revised , post 8vo , pp . 200 , cloth , 3s . 6d . AUGUSTE COMTE AND POSITIVISM . By the late JOHN STUART MILL , M.P. VOLS . I.-II. ] EXTRA SERIES . Two Volumes , post 8vo , pp . 348 and 374 , with Portrait , cloth , 218 ...
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... third conclusion , it must be admitted that man's susceptibilities of suffering are enlarged with increasing culture . Leopardi has shown us that the more vividly we realise the evils that surround and affect us , so much the more ...
... third conclusion , it must be admitted that man's susceptibilities of suffering are enlarged with increasing culture . Leopardi has shown us that the more vividly we realise the evils that surround and affect us , so much the more ...
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... third , and with his thunderbolt precipitate us both I do not know where , as he did Phaeton into the Po ! Hercules . That might be , if , like Phaeton , I were the son of a poet , and not his own son ; and if there were not this ...
... third , and with his thunderbolt precipitate us both I do not know where , as he did Phaeton into the Po ! Hercules . That might be , if , like Phaeton , I were the son of a poet , and not his own son ; and if there were not this ...
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... third machine should be empowered to act as a woman , realising the conception formed partly by Count Baldassar Castiglione , who describes his idea in the book of the " Cortegiano , " and partly by others , easily discoverable in ...
... third machine should be empowered to act as a woman , realising the conception formed partly by Count Baldassar Castiglione , who describes his idea in the book of the " Cortegiano , " and partly by others , easily discoverable in ...
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... fifth lustre of life , decline makes itself manifest ; its progress we are powerless to stay . Scarce a third of life is spent in the bloom of youth ; but few moments are claimed by maturity ; NATURE AND AN ICELANDER . 77.
... fifth lustre of life , decline makes itself manifest ; its progress we are powerless to stay . Scarce a third of life is spent in the bloom of youth ; but few moments are claimed by maturity ; NATURE AND AN ICELANDER . 77.
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