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... nature , ' he might ' leave something so written to after - times , as they should not willingly let it die . ' 6 It appears , in all his writings , that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities , a lofty and steady confidence in ...
... nature , ' he might ' leave something so written to after - times , as they should not willingly let it die . ' 6 It appears , in all his writings , that he had the usual concomitant of great abilities , a lofty and steady confidence in ...
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... natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he was again received with kind- ness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the Vatican Library , who had resided three years ...
... natural and beautiful . From Florence he went to Sienna , and from Sienna to Rome , where he was again received with kind- ness by the learned and the great . Holstenius , the keeper of the Vatican Library , who had resided three years ...
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... nature , and the sciences which that knowledge re- quires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first ...
... nature , and the sciences which that knowledge re- quires or includes , are not the great or the frequent business of the human mind . Whether we provide for action or conversation , whether we wish to be useful or pleasing , the first ...
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... nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are volun- tary , and at leisure . Physiological learning is of ... nature to spe- culations upon life ; but the innovators whom I op- pose are turning off attention from life to nature ...
... nature is necessary ; our speculations upon matter are volun- tary , and at leisure . Physiological learning is of ... nature to spe- culations upon life ; but the innovators whom I op- pose are turning off attention from life to nature ...
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... nature , more inclin- able to reconciliation than to perseverance in anger or revenge , and partly the strong intercession of friends on both sides , soon brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace . ' It were in ...
... nature , more inclin- able to reconciliation than to perseverance in anger or revenge , and partly the strong intercession of friends on both sides , soon brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace . ' It were in ...
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