The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 56A. Constable, 1832 |
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Page 271
... truth at ' a glance , where it had escaped the laborious investigation of pre- ceding scholars . To the acuteness with which he pointed out the errors of others , not merely in their false results , but in their cause , and origin , and ...
... truth at ' a glance , where it had escaped the laborious investigation of pre- ceding scholars . To the acuteness with which he pointed out the errors of others , not merely in their false results , but in their cause , and origin , and ...
Page 278
... truth of a history thus formed , we will dis- cuss first the traditionary portion of it . We know , from a comparison of different examples , what very different degrees of truth may exist in popular and poetic traditions . We may have ...
... truth of a history thus formed , we will dis- cuss first the traditionary portion of it . We know , from a comparison of different examples , what very different degrees of truth may exist in popular and poetic traditions . We may have ...
Page 281
... truth , -if the reader will be careful to distinguish this from their his rical truth . By their poetical truth we mean their congruity with the manners and sentiments of the people among whom they were invented and repeated . Hence ...
... truth , -if the reader will be careful to distinguish this from their his rical truth . By their poetical truth we mean their congruity with the manners and sentiments of the people among whom they were invented and repeated . Hence ...
Contents
The Life of Sir Isaac Newton By David now | 1 |
Auflage The Poems of Ludwig Uhland | 37 |
On Political Economy in Connexion with the Moral | 52 |
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