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... Hobbes's achieve- ment , and he had therefore to provide a context for his praise , lift- ing it above the level of mere opinion or personal regard . Stanzas 2-4 provide this context , placing Hobbes's work within a myth- ology of ...
... Hobbes's achieve- ment , and he had therefore to provide a context for his praise , lift- ing it above the level of mere opinion or personal regard . Stanzas 2-4 provide this context , placing Hobbes's work within a myth- ology of ...
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... Hobbes's intellect to the shield made for Aeneas by Vulcan . On this shield , as he remarks in a footnote , ' was graven all the Roman History ' , and the comparison reinforces his earlier statement that Hobbes had ' planted , peopled ...
... Hobbes's intellect to the shield made for Aeneas by Vulcan . On this shield , as he remarks in a footnote , ' was graven all the Roman History ' , and the comparison reinforces his earlier statement that Hobbes had ' planted , peopled ...
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... Hobbes's thought , and the poem concludes by returning to Hobbes the man : Nor can the Snow which now cold Age does shed Upon thy reverend Head , Quench or allay the noble Fires within , But all which thou hast bin , And all that Youth ...
... Hobbes's thought , and the poem concludes by returning to Hobbes the man : Nor can the Snow which now cold Age does shed Upon thy reverend Head , Quench or allay the noble Fires within , But all which thou hast bin , And all that Youth ...
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