The Advancement of LearningP. F. Collier, 1905 - 431 Seiten |
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... seem to have their Hercules ' Pillars , which bound the desires and hopes of mankind . But as a false imagination of plenty ... seems a civil representation of the present condition of knowledge ; for she exhibited the coun- tenance and ...
... seem to have their Hercules ' Pillars , which bound the desires and hopes of mankind . But as a false imagination of plenty ... seems a civil representation of the present condition of knowledge ; for she exhibited the coun- tenance and ...
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... seems an impossibility in nature . As regards your readiness of speech , I am reminded of that saying of Tacitus concerning Augustus Cæsar , " Augusto profluens ut quæ principem virum deceret , eloquentia fuit . " For all eloquence ...
... seems an impossibility in nature . As regards your readiness of speech , I am reminded of that saying of Tacitus concerning Augustus Cæsar , " Augusto profluens ut quæ principem virum deceret , eloquentia fuit . " For all eloquence ...
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... seems a great thing in a monarch , if he can find time to digest a compendium or imbibe the simple elements of ... seem best fitted to enlarge the boundaries of knowledge . Poemander of Hermes Trismegistus . On the threshold of the first ...
... seems a great thing in a monarch , if he can find time to digest a compendium or imbibe the simple elements of ... seem best fitted to enlarge the boundaries of knowledge . Poemander of Hermes Trismegistus . On the threshold of the first ...
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... seems very im- probable . It is wrong to trust the natural body to empirics , who commonly have a few receipts whereon they rely , but who know neither the causes of diseases , nor the constitu tions of patients , nor the danger of ...
... seems very im- probable . It is wrong to trust the natural body to empirics , who commonly have a few receipts whereon they rely , but who know neither the causes of diseases , nor the constitu tions of patients , nor the danger of ...
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... seems a good emblem of this vanity ; " for words are but the images of matter , and unless they have life of reason and invention , to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture . Yet the illustrating the obscurities of ...
... seems a good emblem of this vanity ; " for words are but the images of matter , and unless they have life of reason and invention , to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture . Yet the illustrating the obscurities of ...
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