A Life of Aristotle: Including a Critical Discussion of Some Questions of Literary History Connected with His WorksJ. and J.J. Deighton, 1839 - 181 pages |
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... notices , which contain much that is obviously false and even contradictory , and from which a systematic account , in which tolerable confidence may be placed , can only be deduced by a careful and critical investigation . It is not ...
... notices , which contain much that is obviously false and even contradictory , and from which a systematic account , in which tolerable confidence may be placed , can only be deduced by a careful and critical investigation . It is not ...
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... notices by him which have come down to us , is his celebrated Chronology , a composition in iambic verse , often cited under the title of Xpoviká , or Xpo- VIKY σúvтağıs , by that compiler whose treatise is unfor- tunately the most ...
... notices by him which have come down to us , is his celebrated Chronology , a composition in iambic verse , often cited under the title of Xpoviká , or Xpo- VIKY σúvтağıs , by that compiler whose treatise is unfor- tunately the most ...
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... notice afterwards , is quite in accordance with this satirical de- scription . The censorship which was established in the time of Ti- berius accelerated the degeneracy of the national taste ; its opera- tion being fatal to an ...
... notice afterwards , is quite in accordance with this satirical de- scription . The censorship which was established in the time of Ti- berius accelerated the degeneracy of the national taste ; its opera- tion being fatal to an ...
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... notice of it , describes as being " a most useful one for the acquirement of general information ' . " Phavorinus , a native of Arles , who flourished in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian , was the compiler of another work of the same ...
... notice of it , describes as being " a most useful one for the acquirement of general information ' . " Phavorinus , a native of Arles , who flourished in the reign of the Emperor Hadrian , was the compiler of another work of the same ...
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... notices of uncertain origin will possess a greater or less claim to our consideration , as they appear more or less adapted to make parts of that body of which , as it were , a few fossil bones have been preserved . These we shall first ...
... notices of uncertain origin will possess a greater or less claim to our consideration , as they appear more or less adapted to make parts of that body of which , as it were , a few fossil bones have been preserved . These we shall first ...
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Page 74 - This is some fellow, Who, having been praised for bluntness, doth affect A saucy roughness, and constrains the garb Quite from his nature : he cannot flatter, he, — An honest mind and plain, — he must speak truth ! An they will take it, so ; if not, he 's plain.