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... living past of our own present mathematical inquiries , a past which , so far as we take any interest in mathematics , we still enjoy as an actual possession . Because the historical past , unlike the natural past , is a living past ...
... living past of our own present mathematical inquiries , a past which , so far as we take any interest in mathematics , we still enjoy as an actual possession . Because the historical past , unlike the natural past , is a living past ...
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... living in the last , final age of the world , Bede as Geographer was equally conscious of living in the last , uttermost regions . He speaks of Ireland and Britain as the two remotest isles of the ocean.1 His abbot , Ceolfrid ...
... living in the last , final age of the world , Bede as Geographer was equally conscious of living in the last , uttermost regions . He speaks of Ireland and Britain as the two remotest isles of the ocean.1 His abbot , Ceolfrid ...
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... living people - in ogres and dragons ; / we then perceive its puzzlement in face of the odd fact that it has derived great pleasure from a poem that is actually about these unfashionable creatures . Even though it attri- butes ' genius ...
... living people - in ogres and dragons ; / we then perceive its puzzlement in face of the odd fact that it has derived great pleasure from a poem that is actually about these unfashionable creatures . Even though it attri- butes ' genius ...
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THE ENGLISH EPIC TRADITION Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 35 |
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