Guesses at Truth: Second SeriesTaylor and Walton, 1848 - 383 pages |
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... of its own . The very sharpness and abruptness with which truths must be asserted , when they are to stand singly , is not ill fitted to startle and rouse sluggish and drowsy minds . Nor is the present shattered and GUESSES AT TRUTH .
... of its own . The very sharpness and abruptness with which truths must be asserted , when they are to stand singly , is not ill fitted to startle and rouse sluggish and drowsy minds . Nor is the present shattered and GUESSES AT TRUTH .
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... stand , will not enable him to rise . U. What do you mean by the lords spiritual ? askt Madame de Stael : are they so called because they are so spirituels ? How exactly do esprit and spirituel express what the French deem the highest ...
... stand , will not enable him to rise . U. What do you mean by the lords spiritual ? askt Madame de Stael : are they so called because they are so spirituels ? How exactly do esprit and spirituel express what the French deem the highest ...
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... stands as an inviting beacon on the top of some distant mountain . Hereupon the same labours recur . Thousands after ... standing on the beach , you may see the тpivμía , as the Greeks called it , out- running , not only the waves that ...
... stands as an inviting beacon on the top of some distant mountain . Hereupon the same labours recur . Thousands after ... standing on the beach , you may see the тpivμía , as the Greeks called it , out- running , not only the waves that ...
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... stand alone and among the Greeks themselves the art declined after the age of Phidias and Praxi- teles . In painting too who has there been for the last century worthy to hold Raphael's palette ? Even in what might be deemed a ...
... stand alone and among the Greeks themselves the art declined after the age of Phidias and Praxi- teles . In painting too who has there been for the last century worthy to hold Raphael's palette ? Even in what might be deemed a ...
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... stand that a more advanced stage of civilization does not necessarily imply a better state of society , least of all in any one particular coun- try ; which , it is possible , may already have played out its part , and be doomed to fall ...
... stand that a more advanced stage of civilization does not necessarily imply a better state of society , least of all in any one particular coun- try ; which , it is possible , may already have played out its part , and be doomed to fall ...
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