Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Nide 3W. Blackwood, 1850 |
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... entirely the weight of authority , laying aside almost everything which had been advanced in support of religion by its professed disciples , he applied himself to accumulate the conclusions in its favour which arose from its internal ...
... entirely the weight of authority , laying aside almost everything which had been advanced in support of religion by its professed disciples , he applied himself to accumulate the conclusions in its favour which arose from its internal ...
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... entirely out of place in the age of Louis XIV .; and the critic who observed that Massillon would never have published such a book , spoke an undoubted truth . Most certainly the author would never have thought of writing such a work if ...
... entirely out of place in the age of Louis XIV .; and the critic who observed that Massillon would never have published such a book , spoke an undoubted truth . Most certainly the author would never have thought of writing such a work if ...
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... entirely original , and his genius has opened the two fountains from which the most prolific streams of beauty in modern poetry have flowed . He is the father of descriptive and amatory poetry . The passion of love , as we understand it ...
... entirely original , and his genius has opened the two fountains from which the most prolific streams of beauty in modern poetry have flowed . He is the father of descriptive and amatory poetry . The passion of love , as we understand it ...
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... entirely preserved . It is one great struggle between Europe and Asia which is recorded ; it is for the attack and defence of one city that the forces of Christendom and of Mahometanism are arrayed . But the object of contention , the ...
... entirely preserved . It is one great struggle between Europe and Asia which is recorded ; it is for the attack and defence of one city that the forces of Christendom and of Mahometanism are arrayed . But the object of contention , the ...
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... entirely , at the representation of a single figure . Even the procession on the frieze of the Parthenon is not sculpture : it is a series of isolated horsemen or figures passing . The group of Niobe and her children is the only attempt ...
... entirely , at the representation of a single figure . Even the procession on the frieze of the Parthenon is not sculpture : it is a series of isolated horsemen or figures passing . The group of Niobe and her children is the only attempt ...
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