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... activities are a part - is enacted : a drama in which the scenery is reshaped , the play is rewritten , the various actors assume shifting roles , directors are replaced , and even the audience changes . [ I ] It is , of course ...
... activities are a part - is enacted : a drama in which the scenery is reshaped , the play is rewritten , the various actors assume shifting roles , directors are replaced , and even the audience changes . [ I ] It is , of course ...
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... activities and often indulged themselves in similar avocations . Whewell wrote hexameters , translated German lyric poetry , edited Grotius , translated the dialogues of Plato , and even published a small book on Gothic churches of ...
... activities and often indulged themselves in similar avocations . Whewell wrote hexameters , translated German lyric poetry , edited Grotius , translated the dialogues of Plato , and even published a small book on Gothic churches of ...
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... activities of artificial taxonomists like Linnaeus were part of a blind mnemonic impulse that Coleridge believed would destroy language itself . The specialist operated in a highly disciplined system of verbal reference that excluded ...
... activities of artificial taxonomists like Linnaeus were part of a blind mnemonic impulse that Coleridge believed would destroy language itself . The specialist operated in a highly disciplined system of verbal reference that excluded ...
Contents
Contents | 10 |
Preface By JAMES Paradis and THOMAS POSTLEWAIT | 39 |
Carlyles Extension | 69 |
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