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Though we cannot concur with him in his slight estimate of the value of the Aristotelian logic as expounded by such writers as Whately , we do think his views of the benefit which might be derived from at least adding to it the first ...
Though we cannot concur with him in his slight estimate of the value of the Aristotelian logic as expounded by such writers as Whately , we do think his views of the benefit which might be derived from at least adding to it the first ...
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... is a spirited , discursive writer ; gathers up facts and anecdotes with insatiable zest ; has his eyes open in every ... this is a very lively and instructive volume : the reader travels with the writer in true rail - road fashion ...
... is a spirited , discursive writer ; gathers up facts and anecdotes with insatiable zest ; has his eyes open in every ... this is a very lively and instructive volume : the reader travels with the writer in true rail - road fashion ...
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It is true , that a few minor writers remain for the next volume , and one more original , yet decidedly inferior poet , the Sicilian Theocritus . But all the nobler and higher minds belong to the earlier period which is now brought ...
It is true , that a few minor writers remain for the next volume , and one more original , yet decidedly inferior poet , the Sicilian Theocritus . But all the nobler and higher minds belong to the earlier period which is now brought ...
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His zealous devotion to the Greek literature and his intimate familiarity with all the fragmentary portions and notices of lost writers , are very apparent . Everything which a writer can do , he has done , for making an English reader ...
His zealous devotion to the Greek literature and his intimate familiarity with all the fragmentary portions and notices of lost writers , are very apparent . Everything which a writer can do , he has done , for making an English reader ...
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... for although some of these were very influential in Greek civilization ( espe- cially the poems of Simonides ) , yet in most cases when writers were really much read by the ancients , some at least of their works have reached us ...
... for although some of these were very influential in Greek civilization ( espe- cially the poems of Simonides ) , yet in most cases when writers were really much read by the ancients , some at least of their works have reached us ...
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