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... instance the question of transitions.If the chain is to be whole , the top of one class must link with the bottom of another . Here is Higden's account of these links from the second book of Polychronicon : In the universal order of ...
... instance the question of transitions.If the chain is to be whole , the top of one class must link with the bottom of another . Here is Higden's account of these links from the second book of Polychronicon : In the universal order of ...
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... instance that , im- pressed by its size and its leonine dignity , you called a St. Bernard the highest of the canines , you could think of it simultaneously as striving to become a lion and as correspond- ing in eminence to the diamond ...
... instance that , im- pressed by its size and its leonine dignity , you called a St. Bernard the highest of the canines , you could think of it simultaneously as striving to become a lion and as correspond- ing in eminence to the diamond ...
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... instance of this correspondence is in Julius Caesar , when Brutus , greatly perplexed , says Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion , all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream . The genius and the ...
... instance of this correspondence is in Julius Caesar , when Brutus , greatly perplexed , says Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion , all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream . The genius and the ...
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