Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... speak disparagingly of pages from which I have derived so much pleasure and knowledge , they want the radiance and ... speaking of his plan , this was the sort of development he sketched ; but no word more was written than appears in ...
... speak disparagingly of pages from which I have derived so much pleasure and knowledge , they want the radiance and ... speaking of his plan , this was the sort of development he sketched ; but no word more was written than appears in ...
Page xi
... speak , which such a system necessitates , we must think highly of the generosity and self - abnegation of the man who regulated his conduct undeviatingly by it . Can anything be more beautiful than these letters ? They are adorned by ...
... speak , which such a system necessitates , we must think highly of the generosity and self - abnegation of the man who regulated his conduct undeviatingly by it . Can anything be more beautiful than these letters ? They are adorned by ...
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... speak , the rivers flowing from those immortal fountains . And though there seems to be a principle in the modern world , which , should circumstances analogous to those which modelled the intellectual resources of the age to which we ...
... speak , the rivers flowing from those immortal fountains . And though there seems to be a principle in the modern world , which , should circumstances analogous to those which modelled the intellectual resources of the age to which we ...
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... speak . " Thus as we walked , I gave him some account of those discussions concerning Love ; since , as I said before , I remember them with sufficient accuracy . If I am required to relate them also to you , that shall willingly be ...
... speak . " Thus as we walked , I gave him some account of those discussions concerning Love ; since , as I said before , I remember them with sufficient accuracy . If I am required to relate them also to you , that shall willingly be ...
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... speak before us shall have exhausted the subject with their eloquence and reasonings , our discourses will be superfluous . But in the name of Good Fortune , let Phædrus begin and praise Love . " The whole party agreed to what Socrates ...
... speak before us shall have exhausted the subject with their eloquence and reasonings , our discourses will be superfluous . But in the name of Good Fortune , let Phædrus begin and praise Love . " The whole party agreed to what Socrates ...
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