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... less unfortunate , owing to its poverty of diction , and antiquated phraseology . Under the public sense of these failures , another translation was produced about sixty years ago by Dr. Shaw , which might have merited approbation , had ...
... less unfortunate , owing to its poverty of diction , and antiquated phraseology . Under the public sense of these failures , another translation was produced about sixty years ago by Dr. Shaw , which might have merited approbation , had ...
Page 9
... less rashly , human knowledge itself , the thing employed in all our researches , is not well put together nor justly formed , but resembles a magnificent structure that has no foundation . And while men agree to admire and magnify the ...
... less rashly , human knowledge itself , the thing employed in all our researches , is not well put together nor justly formed , but resembles a magnificent structure that has no foundation . And while men agree to admire and magnify the ...
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... less than they are ; whence , either valuing the received arts above measure , they look out no further ; or else despising themselves too much , they exercise their talents upon lighter matters , without attempting the capital things ...
... less than they are ; whence , either valuing the received arts above measure , they look out no further ; or else despising themselves too much , they exercise their talents upon lighter matters , without attempting the capital things ...
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... less of what has been done by particular persons , and transacted in private ; so that neither the births nor miscarriages of time are to be found in our records . Nor is consent , or the continuance thereof , a thing of any account ...
... less of what has been done by particular persons , and transacted in private ; so that neither the births nor miscarriages of time are to be found in our records . Nor is consent , or the continuance thereof , a thing of any account ...
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... less than the advantage of others , to know that a mere capricious idea has not presented the subject to our mind , and that all we desire and aim at is a wish . For our designs are ( 20 ) DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORK 21 within the power of ...
... less than the advantage of others , to know that a mere capricious idea has not presented the subject to our mind , and that all we desire and aim at is a wish . For our designs are ( 20 ) DISTRIBUTION OF THE WORK 21 within the power of ...
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