Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous, Volumen1Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854 - 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 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 opinion subsides . Hostile theorics correct ...
... truth and liberty 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 opinion subsides . Hostile theorics correct ...
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... truth in the transactions of life , he into virtues , and paradoxes into axioms , learns was honestly devoted to the pursuit of truth in to distinguish what is accidental and transitory the researches of speculation . Wanton cru- in ...
... truth in the transactions of life , he into virtues , and paradoxes into axioms , learns was honestly devoted to the pursuit of truth in to distinguish what is accidental and transitory the researches of speculation . Wanton cru- in ...
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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 quainted with a man singularly dark and inscrutable - with 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 quainted with a man singularly dark and inscrutable - with DRYDEN . 45.
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