A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 190
... FACT There are more things in heaven and earth , Horatio , Than are dreamt of in your philosophy .'- SHAKESPEARE . A PASSION for these two things is supposed to be incompatible . It is certainly not ; and the suppo- sition is founded on ...
... FACT There are more things in heaven and earth , Horatio , Than are dreamt of in your philosophy .'- SHAKESPEARE . A PASSION for these two things is supposed to be incompatible . It is certainly not ; and the suppo- sition is founded on ...
Page 193
... fact is as solid as ever ; but they who do not see the reality of the other , keep but a blind and prone beating upon their own surface . To drop the metaphor , matter of fact is our perception of the grosser and 1 It has done so . This ...
... fact is as solid as ever ; but they who do not see the reality of the other , keep but a blind and prone beating upon their own surface . To drop the metaphor , matter of fact is our perception of the grosser and 1 It has done so . This ...
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... fact and reality he took from the life of the outward world : this basis was indispensable to him , for he was an ... fact , but it also desires to treat this basis of fact with the utmost freedom ; and this desire for the freest ...
... fact and reality he took from the life of the outward world : this basis was indispensable to him , for he was an ... fact , but it also desires to treat this basis of fact with the utmost freedom ; and this desire for the freest ...
Contents
SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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