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Page 64
... wrote : Know then thyself , presume no God to scan ; The proper study of Mankind is Man . Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state , A being darkly wise , and rudely great : He hangs between ; in doubt to act , or rest , In doubt to ...
... wrote : Know then thyself , presume no God to scan ; The proper study of Mankind is Man . Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state , A being darkly wise , and rudely great : He hangs between ; in doubt to act , or rest , In doubt to ...
Page 69
... wrote : No borrow'd Names conceal my living Theam ; But Names and Things directly I Proclaim.27 This being no plain style of prose ambiguities are possible . And , symptomatically read , these two lines tell us not only that names and ...
... wrote : No borrow'd Names conceal my living Theam ; But Names and Things directly I Proclaim.27 This being no plain style of prose ambiguities are possible . And , symptomatically read , these two lines tell us not only that names and ...
Page 77
... wrote a diary " for information sake , " coded and hid his text in a shorthand , kept it locked and was driven blind by it . 62 As the only reader of the text , he wrote it in order to inform the " I " that read it about the " I " that ...
... wrote a diary " for information sake , " coded and hid his text in a shorthand , kept it locked and was driven blind by it . 62 As the only reader of the text , he wrote it in order to inform the " I " that read it about the " I " that ...
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