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... reason , indeed , the humanist case is unanswerable . For it is , you may say , the case of reason itself . The eighteenth century assumed that the medieval scene - one of the most moving scenes in the human drama , strange , pathetic ...
... reason , indeed , the humanist case is unanswerable . For it is , you may say , the case of reason itself . The eighteenth century assumed that the medieval scene - one of the most moving scenes in the human drama , strange , pathetic ...
Page 188
... reason is to dispel mysteries and put an end to dreams . Truth and knowledge are sufficient for them , or without much anxious inquiry they suppose them sufficient . In Chatterton's day the star of intellect was in the ascendant , and ...
... reason is to dispel mysteries and put an end to dreams . Truth and knowledge are sufficient for them , or without much anxious inquiry they suppose them sufficient . In Chatterton's day the star of intellect was in the ascendant , and ...
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... reason , make of it ? As might be expected , they could make nothing . They stood before the work of these architects , of which Blake thought the world had not been worthy , in complete bewilderment . The great minsters and abbeys were ...
... reason , make of it ? As might be expected , they could make nothing . They stood before the work of these architects , of which Blake thought the world had not been worthy , in complete bewilderment . The great minsters and abbeys were ...
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H St John Thackeray Communicated November 1929 | 15 |
EARLY ITALIAN ENGRAVING Annual Lecture on Aspects of Art | 45 |
WANDERING ENGLISHMEN IN ITALY Annual Italian Lecture | 61 |
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