Essays, Critical and MiscellaneousA. Hart, 1853 - 744 páginas |
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... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
... Truth , indeed , is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness . The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false . After the first suppositions have been made , every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first ...
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... truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage But let them gaze on , and they will soon be able to bear it . In a few years men learn to reason . The extreme violence of ...
... truth and liberty may at first dazzle and bewilder nations which have become half blind in the house of bondage But let them gaze on , and they will soon be able to bear it . In a few years men learn to reason . The extreme violence of ...
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... truth in the transactions of life , he was honestly devoted to the pursuit of truth in the researches of speculation . Wanton cru- elty was not in his nature . On the contrary , where no political object was at stake , his dis- position ...
... truth in the transactions of life , he was honestly devoted to the pursuit of truth in the researches of speculation . Wanton cru- elty was not in his nature . On the contrary , where no political object was at stake , his dis- position ...
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... truth , Livy is not a historian on whom much reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed consider- able means of information . And his first De- cade , to which Machiavelli has confined him- self , is scarcely ...
... truth , Livy is not a historian on whom much reliance can be placed , even in cases where he must have possessed consider- able means of information . And his first De- cade , to which Machiavelli has confined him- self , is scarcely ...
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... truth of character is the first object ; the truth of place and time is to be considered only in the second place . Puff himself could tell the actor to turn to have composed his history and the close of the DRYDEN . 45.
... truth of character is the first object ; the truth of place and time is to be considered only in the second place . Puff himself could tell the actor to turn to have composed his history and the close of the DRYDEN . 45.
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