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Any intelligent man may now , by resolutely applying him- self for a few years to mathematics , learn more than the great Newton knew after half a century of study and medi- tation . But it is not thus with music , with painting ...
Any intelligent man may now , by resolutely applying him- self for a few years to mathematics , learn more than the great Newton knew after half a century of study and medi- tation . But it is not thus with music , with painting ...
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But the necessity of having something more definite to adore , produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human ...
But the necessity of having something more definite to adore , produced , in a few centuries , the innumerable crowd of gods and goddesses . In like manner the ancient Per- sians thought it impious to exhibit the Creator under a human ...
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But the most decisive refutation is that which is furnished by the other works of Machiavelli In all the writings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the research of editors has , in the course of three centuries ...
But the most decisive refutation is that which is furnished by the other works of Machiavelli In all the writings which he gave to the public , and in all those which the research of editors has , in the course of three centuries ...
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As this is a subject which suggests many interesting considerations , both political and metaphysical , we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length . During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which fol- lowed the downfall ...
As this is a subject which suggests many interesting considerations , both political and metaphysical , we shall make no apology for discussing it at some length . During the gloomy and disastrous centuries which fol- lowed the downfall ...
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In the twelfth century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , it triumph- ed over the abilities and courage of the Swabian Princes . The assistance of the ecclesiastical power had greatly contributed to ...
In the twelfth century it attained its full vigour , and , after a long and doubtful conflict , it triumph- ed over the abilities and courage of the Swabian Princes . The assistance of the ecclesiastical power had greatly contributed to ...
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