A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume 1Longmans, Green, 1872 - 511 páginas |
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... kind treated of in this book ; and he meant to write a second part , in which the contradictions and inconsistencies of orthodox learning would have been subjected to the same scrutiny and castigation as heterodox ignorance had already ...
... kind treated of in this book ; and he meant to write a second part , in which the contradictions and inconsistencies of orthodox learning would have been subjected to the same scrutiny and castigation as heterodox ignorance had already ...
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... kind ; and if the fly were to endeavour to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant , I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty . The apparently little creature might use such arguments about the effect of distance , and ...
... kind ; and if the fly were to endeavour to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant , I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty . The apparently little creature might use such arguments about the effect of distance , and ...
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... - tion at all has been made . The books are , without exception , those which I have in my own library ; and I have taken all — I mean all of the kind : Heaven forbid that I should be supposed to have no other books ! But I may have.
... - tion at all has been made . The books are , without exception , those which I have in my own library ; and I have taken all — I mean all of the kind : Heaven forbid that I should be supposed to have no other books ! But I may have.
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... kind of direct evidence . First , foremost , and enough , the evidence of Ben Jonson that he had ' little Latin and less Greek ; ' then Shakspeare had as much Greek as Jonson would call some , even when he was depreciating . To have any ...
... kind of direct evidence . First , foremost , and enough , the evidence of Ben Jonson that he had ' little Latin and less Greek ; ' then Shakspeare had as much Greek as Jonson would call some , even when he was depreciating . To have any ...
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... kind ; and the editor , who would gladly call the writer to counsel if he could , is obliged to strike out ten or twenty lines . He must do his best , but it may chance that the omission selected would take from the writer the power of ...
... kind ; and the editor , who would gladly call the writer to counsel if he could , is obliged to strike out ten or twenty lines . He must do his best , but it may chance that the omission selected would take from the writer the power of ...
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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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