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... seems now to be the common idea which is entertained of the value of Fiction . Accordingly , this powerful instrument of virtue and happiness , after having been long despised , on account of the purposes to which it had been made ...
... seems now to be the common idea which is entertained of the value of Fiction . Accordingly , this powerful instrument of virtue and happiness , after having been long despised , on account of the purposes to which it had been made ...
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... seems to have been written under the eye of the sultan who said he would cut off the head of the first man who made a reflection . But even the utility of the abstracts , which should have been the principal object of the work , is in a ...
... seems to have been written under the eye of the sultan who said he would cut off the head of the first man who made a reflection . But even the utility of the abstracts , which should have been the principal object of the work , is in a ...
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... seems to have been most early and most generally prevalent in Persia and other Asiatic regions , where the nature of the climate and effeminacy of the in- habitants conspired to promote its cultivation . The people of Asia Minor , who ...
... seems to have been most early and most generally prevalent in Persia and other Asiatic regions , where the nature of the climate and effeminacy of the in- habitants conspired to promote its cultivation . The people of Asia Minor , who ...
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... seems to have grafted the Milesian tales on the mythological fables of Apollodorus and similar writers , and also to have borrowed from early historians and poets , whose productions have not descended to us . His work is inscribed to ...
... seems to have grafted the Milesian tales on the mythological fables of Apollodorus and similar writers , and also to have borrowed from early historians and poets , whose productions have not descended to us . His work is inscribed to ...
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... seems to have been attempted in this style of com- position by the European Greeks ; but the more frequent intercourse which his conquests introduced between the Greek and Asiatic nations , opened at once all the sources of fiction ...
... seems to have been attempted in this style of com- position by the European Greeks ; but the more frequent intercourse which his conquests introduced between the Greek and Asiatic nations , opened at once all the sources of fiction ...
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