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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... present time . Before this task could be attempted with any advantage , it was necessary to enter upon some points relative to the history of philosophical literature , and , from the nature of these , no mode of discussing them ...
... present time . Before this task could be attempted with any advantage , it was necessary to enter upon some points relative to the history of philosophical literature , and , from the nature of these , no mode of discussing them ...
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... present day , and of which the language has pene- trated into the inmost recesses of our daily life . Trans- lated in the fifth century of the Christian era into the Syriac language by the Nestorians who fled to Persia , and from Syriac ...
... present day , and of which the language has pene- trated into the inmost recesses of our daily life . Trans- lated in the fifth century of the Christian era into the Syriac language by the Nestorians who fled to Persia , and from Syriac ...
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... present day . This , however , soon afterwards ceased to be the case . When the only means of obtaining the copy of a book was by the laborious process of tran- scription , the expense necessarily confined its acquisi- tion to ...
... present day . This , however , soon afterwards ceased to be the case . When the only means of obtaining the copy of a book was by the laborious process of tran- scription , the expense necessarily confined its acquisi- tion to ...
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... present day . Homer , a sacred book for the Greeks , was the principal subject of their labours ; but indeed there 1 See Juvenal , Sat. vii . 229-236 , of the qualifications required from the masters of his time : - Vos savas imponite ...
... present day . Homer , a sacred book for the Greeks , was the principal subject of their labours ; but indeed there 1 See Juvenal , Sat. vii . 229-236 , of the qualifications required from the masters of his time : - Vos savas imponite ...
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... present collectively to the view of our readers , and then proceed step by step in the pro- cess of redintegration . 1 See Casaubon's note on Diog . Laert . v . 29 . APOLLODORUS . 2 11 On the authority then of Apollodorus.
... present collectively to the view of our readers , and then proceed step by step in the pro- cess of redintegration . 1 See Casaubon's note on Diog . Laert . v . 29 . APOLLODORUS . 2 11 On the authority then of Apollodorus.
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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.