A Book of English Essays (1600-1900)Stanley Victor Makower, Basil H. Blackwell Oxford University Press, 1952 - 440 pages |
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Page 164
... present circumstances ; for the knowledge of the one would have prevented the possibility of their application to the other . Facts present a tangible and definite idea to the mind , a train of causes and consequences , accounting for ...
... present circumstances ; for the knowledge of the one would have prevented the possibility of their application to the other . Facts present a tangible and definite idea to the mind , a train of causes and consequences , accounting for ...
Page 203
... present deity ' of the occasion ; and we have known a very pleasant effect produced by every- body's bringing some quotation applicable to him from his works , and laying it before his image , to be read in the course of the evening ...
... present deity ' of the occasion ; and we have known a very pleasant effect produced by every- body's bringing some quotation applicable to him from his works , and laying it before his image , to be read in the course of the evening ...
Page 387
... present essay if we allowed ourselves to be seduced by its interest . Two questions remain , after all busy anti- quarianism , concerning Leonardo's death - the question of his religion , and the question whether Francis I was present ...
... present essay if we allowed ourselves to be seduced by its interest . Two questions remain , after all busy anti- quarianism , concerning Leonardo's death - the question of his religion , and the question whether Francis I was present ...
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SIR THOMAS OVERBURY 15811613 | 9 |
SIR THOMAS BROWNE 16051682 | 16 |
THOMAS FULLER 16081661 | 22 |
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