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... century physics itself . The really new element in the thought of to - day as com- pared with that of three centuries ago is the rise of history . It is true that the same Cartesian spirit which did so much for physics was already ...
... century physics itself . The really new element in the thought of to - day as com- pared with that of three centuries ago is the rise of history . It is true that the same Cartesian spirit which did so much for physics was already ...
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... century ago , Henry Hallam , for so calling it.1 Sarton has pointed out that , though things were bad in Europe , the early seventh century was a golden age in Arabia , in Tibet , in China , and in Japan . Hallam hardly deserves the ...
... century ago , Henry Hallam , for so calling it.1 Sarton has pointed out that , though things were bad in Europe , the early seventh century was a golden age in Arabia , in Tibet , in China , and in Japan . Hallam hardly deserves the ...
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... century is less intelligible to the eighteenth , the eighteenth century more in opposition to the nineteenth , than Bede to any one of them ; his good sense is everywhere at home .... The reputation of Bede seems always to have been ...
... century is less intelligible to the eighteenth , the eighteenth century more in opposition to the nineteenth , than Bede to any one of them ; his good sense is everywhere at home .... The reputation of Bede seems always to have been ...
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THE ENGLISH EPIC TRADITION Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 35 |
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