A Life of Aristotle: Including a Critical Discussion of Some Questions of Literary History Connected with His WorksJ. and J.J. Deighton, 1839 - 181 pages |
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... cause which formerly in the absence of hereditary surnames , and under the ope- ration of many motives for falsification , was much more fertile in its results than can now be easily imagined3 . The second is an authority which for the ...
... cause which formerly in the absence of hereditary surnames , and under the ope- ration of many motives for falsification , was much more fertile in its results than can now be easily imagined3 . The second is an authority which for the ...
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... cause their annihilation . At all events , in subsequent times , when Rome was the centre of civilization as well as of empire , works of such a description became totally unfit to satisfy the wants of the age . A certain ac- quaintance ...
... cause their annihilation . At all events , in subsequent times , when Rome was the centre of civilization as well as of empire , works of such a description became totally unfit to satisfy the wants of the age . A certain ac- quaintance ...
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... caused in no small measure by the accumulation of commentatorial or antiquarian works . Thus Aristarchus is said to have written more than eight hundred volumes of commentaries alone . ( Suidas , sub v . ) Some are said to have spent ...
... caused in no small measure by the accumulation of commentatorial or antiquarian works . Thus Aristarchus is said to have written more than eight hundred volumes of commentaries alone . ( Suidas , sub v . ) Some are said to have spent ...
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... caused the pro- duction of such works as these , or at any rate as the latter , did not stop here . Still declining , it called for yet more meager and worthless compilations , which were furnished by drawing from the confused and tur ...
... caused the pro- duction of such works as these , or at any rate as the latter , did not stop here . Still declining , it called for yet more meager and worthless compilations , which were furnished by drawing from the confused and tur ...
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... cause of its commencement . Plato was at that time in the height of his reputation , and the desire to see and enjoy the intercourse of such a man would have been an adequate motive to minds of much less capacity and taste for ...
... cause of its commencement . Plato was at that time in the height of his reputation , and the desire to see and enjoy the intercourse of such a man would have been an adequate motive to minds of much less capacity and taste for ...
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Page 74 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : he cannot flatter, he, — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he 's plain.