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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... reader . It very soon overlaid and destroyed the learned labours of the preceding ages , and from the time at which ... readers to believe that he has done so . One of the earliest as well as most original works of this description was ...
... reader . It very soon overlaid and destroyed the learned labours of the preceding ages , and from the time at which ... readers to believe that he has done so . One of the earliest as well as most original works of this description was ...
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... readers might enjoy the pleasure arising from the variety . This work Photius , from whom we have taken our notice of it , describes as being " a most useful one for the acquirement of general information ' . " Phavorinus , a native of ...
... readers might enjoy the pleasure arising from the variety . This work Photius , from whom we have taken our notice of it , describes as being " a most useful one for the acquirement of general information ' . " Phavorinus , a native of ...
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... we shall first 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.
... we shall first 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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... reading ; so that there was no more fear of their forgetting their anatomy than of their forgetting their alphabet . But when grown men as well as children were taught , this thorough discipline fell off ; and the art being carried out ...
... reading ; so that there was no more fear of their forgetting their anatomy than of their forgetting their alphabet . But when grown men as well as children were taught , this thorough discipline fell off ; and the art being carried out ...
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... reader . " The Latin translator adds , that in his absence his master would exclaim , " that the intelligence of the have been the means of drawing his attention to intellectual phi- losophy ; the social intercourse in which this might ...
... reader . " The Latin translator adds , that in his absence his master would exclaim , " that the intelligence of the have been the means of drawing his attention to intellectual phi- losophy ; the social intercourse in which this might ...
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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.