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... spirit ; and it raises your spirits , if you drink it . What is the relation between that spirit and those spirits ? Again we answer : Metaphorical . But Captain Power talks as if they were identical . Also , the spirit of Scotch whisky ...
... spirit ; and it raises your spirits , if you drink it . What is the relation between that spirit and those spirits ? Again we answer : Metaphorical . But Captain Power talks as if they were identical . Also , the spirit of Scotch whisky ...
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... spirit is to the microcosm - the interior tegument , the subtle instrument and vehicle of power . No wonder , then , that the ens primum or scintilla spirituosa , as it is called , of plants should be a thing so fine and fugacious as to ...
... spirit is to the microcosm - the interior tegument , the subtle instrument and vehicle of power . No wonder , then , that the ens primum or scintilla spirituosa , as it is called , of plants should be a thing so fine and fugacious as to ...
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... Spirit of the Air.1 - Besides the muddles we are by now familiar with , in the word ' light ' and in the ' virtue ' which is also virtù , we perceive the full range of the bewildering shifts inside the word ' spirit ' – from the ' rich ...
... Spirit of the Air.1 - Besides the muddles we are by now familiar with , in the word ' light ' and in the ' virtue ' which is also virtù , we perceive the full range of the bewildering shifts inside the word ' spirit ' – from the ' rich ...
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Chaucer and One Idea of Englishness 1972 | 7 |
A Reading of The Oceans Love to Cynthia 1960 | 13 |
Shakespeare and the Practising Poet Today 1976 | 31 |
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