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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... hands of the latter , and to examine the success which has attended their cultivation up to the present time . Before this task could be attempted with any advantage , it was necessary to enter upon some points relative to the history ...
... hands of the latter , and to examine the success which has attended their cultivation up to the present time . Before this task could be attempted with any advantage , it was necessary to enter upon some points relative to the history ...
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... hand . Pamphila , a lady of Egyptian extraction in the time of Nero , had married at a very early age a person of considerable literary tastes and attainments , whose house was the resort of many per- sons distinguished for the same ...
... hand . Pamphila , a lady of Egyptian extraction in the time of Nero , had married at a very early age a person of considerable literary tastes and attainments , whose house was the resort of many per- sons distinguished for the same ...
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... hand , under which was placed a brazen basin . On the slightest involun- tary relaxation of the muscles , the ball would fall , and by the sudden noise which it made , at once dissipate the incipient drowsiness of the student . But this ...
... hand , under which was placed a brazen basin . On the slightest involun- tary relaxation of the muscles , the ball would fall , and by the sudden noise which it made , at once dissipate the incipient drowsiness of the student . But this ...
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... hand of Pythias is there represented as purchased by a fulsome adulation of her adopted father , and a subserviency to the most loathsome 4 6 Ap . Euseb . loc . cit . 5 Aristocles , loc . cit . Ap . Euseb . loc . cit . 6 7 She is in ...
... hand of Pythias is there represented as purchased by a fulsome adulation of her adopted father , and a subserviency to the most loathsome 4 6 Ap . Euseb . loc . cit . 5 Aristocles , loc . cit . Ap . Euseb . loc . cit . 6 7 She is in ...
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... hand of time has been most active exactly where we should most desire information as to details , and almost all the description we can give of this period is founded upon the scanty notices on the subject furnished by Plutarch in his ...
... hand of time has been most active exactly where we should most desire information as to details , and almost all the description we can give of this period is founded upon the scanty notices on the subject furnished by Plutarch in his ...
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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.