English Critical Essays: (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries)Edmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1930 - 460 Seiten |
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... knowledge to their posterity , may justly challenge to be called their fathers in learning , for not only in time they had this priority ( although in itself antiquity be venerable ) but went before them , as causes to draw with their ...
... knowledge to their posterity , may justly challenge to be called their fathers in learning , for not only in time they had this priority ( although in itself antiquity be venerable ) but went before them , as causes to draw with their ...
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... knowledge and no knowledge to be so high and heavenly as ac- quaintance with the stars , gave themselves to Astronomy ; others , persuading themselves to be demigods if they knew the causes of things , became natural and supernatural ...
... knowledge and no knowledge to be so high and heavenly as ac- quaintance with the stars , gave themselves to Astronomy ; others , persuading themselves to be demigods if they knew the causes of things , became natural and supernatural ...
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... knowledge , yet he could not bear to be considered himself merely as a man of letters ; and though without birth , or fortune , or station , his desire was to be looked upon as a private inde- pendent gentleman , who read for his ...
... knowledge , yet he could not bear to be considered himself merely as a man of letters ; and though without birth , or fortune , or station , his desire was to be looked upon as a private inde- pendent gentleman , who read for his ...
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