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Historians gave these centuries names - names descriptive of actual features of the past , and not derived from interpretations of the book of Daniel or anticipations of the Last Judgement . I need hardly remind you that as early as the ...
Historians gave these centuries names - names descriptive of actual features of the past , and not derived from interpretations of the book of Daniel or anticipations of the Last Judgement . I need hardly remind you that as early as the ...
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A few writers of high imagination may come very close to some of these distant presents which are now past . The description of the new church in William Morris's The Dream of John Ball is one such sudden flash of illumination ...
A few writers of high imagination may come very close to some of these distant presents which are now past . The description of the new church in William Morris's The Dream of John Ball is one such sudden flash of illumination ...
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In any case , as we move along the stream of time , ' after - knowledge ' changes , and with it our interpreta- tions of the distant past . We never see the past as ' a painted ship upon a painted ocean ' .
In any case , as we move along the stream of time , ' after - knowledge ' changes , and with it our interpreta- tions of the distant past . We never see the past as ' a painted ship upon a painted ocean ' .
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Contents
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS By Sir H I Bell | 15 |
ALESSANDRO MANZONI Italian Lecture By A P dEntrèves | 23 |
MORAL PRINCIPLES AND INDUCTIVE POLICIES Philosophical | 51 |
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