A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1872 - 511 páginas |
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... believe they have convinced every one who is not peremptory to the verge of incivility . My list is given in chronological order . My readers will understand that my general expressions , where slighting or contemptuous , refer to the ...
... believe they have convinced every one who is not peremptory to the verge of incivility . My list is given in chronological order . My readers will understand that my general expressions , where slighting or contemptuous , refer to the ...
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... believe , and should not have written if I had . To my strong rebuke , he replied - ' I know it was very wrong ; but human nature could not resist . ' But this was the only occasion on which such a thing ever happened to me . I daresay ...
... believe , and should not have written if I had . To my strong rebuke , he replied - ' I know it was very wrong ; but human nature could not resist . ' But this was the only occasion on which such a thing ever happened to me . I daresay ...
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... believe it ; but it shows that his contemporaries did not believe he had no humour . Good stories are always in some sort of keeping with the characters on which they are fastened . Sir John Hill contrived a communication to the Royal ...
... believe it ; but it shows that his contemporaries did not believe he had no humour . Good stories are always in some sort of keeping with the characters on which they are fastened . Sir John Hill contrived a communication to the Royal ...
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... believe that this man deposed a priest for asserting the whole globe to be inhabited . To me the little information that we have seems to indicate - but not with certainty - that Virgil maintained the antipodes that his ignorant ...
... believe that this man deposed a priest for asserting the whole globe to be inhabited . To me the little information that we have seems to indicate - but not with certainty - that Virgil maintained the antipodes that his ignorant ...
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... believe it ; and they make strange reasons . They undertake , à priori , to settle Divine intentions . The Holy Spirit did not mean to teach natural philosophy : this they know before- hand ; or else they infer it from finding that the ...
... believe it ; and they make strange reasons . They undertake , à priori , to settle Divine intentions . The Holy Spirit did not mean to teach natural philosophy : this they know before- hand ; or else they infer it from finding that the ...
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A Budget of Paradoxes Volume 2 David Eugene Smith,Augustus de Morgan,Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan Pré-visualização indisponível - 2015 |
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Página 16 - For physic and farces his equal there scarce is— His farces are physic, his physic a farce is.