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... past , hitherto only superficially known or frag- mentarily conjectured , are yielding up more and more of their secrets . Even for our own country , the picture of the past is continually shifting its outlines . Byzantine history , art ...
... past , hitherto only superficially known or frag- mentarily conjectured , are yielding up more and more of their secrets . Even for our own country , the picture of the past is continually shifting its outlines . Byzantine history , art ...
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... past of a mathematical thought once entertained by persons whose names and dates we can give , it is the living past of our own present mathematical inquiries , a past which , so far as we take any interest in mathematics , we still ...
... past of a mathematical thought once entertained by persons whose names and dates we can give , it is the living past of our own present mathematical inquiries , a past which , so far as we take any interest in mathematics , we still ...
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... past ; but it is not a dead past ; by understanding it historically we incorporate it into our present thought , and enable ourselves by developing and criticizing it to use that heritage for our own advancement . But a mere inventory ...
... past ; but it is not a dead past ; by understanding it historically we incorporate it into our present thought , and enable ourselves by developing and criticizing it to use that heritage for our own advancement . But a mere inventory ...
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ANNUAL REPORT 19356 | 3 |
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THE ENGLISH EPIC TRADITION Warton Lecture on English Poetry | 35 |
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