Selected Short Stories of Sinclair LewisDoubleday, Doran & Company, 1837 - 426 Seiten |
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... philosophers ) can possibly imagine a reasonable creature capable of . Gay's play , among the rest , has cost much time and long - suffering , to stem a tide of malice and party , that certain authors have raised against it ; the best ...
... philosophers ) can possibly imagine a reasonable creature capable of . Gay's play , among the rest , has cost much time and long - suffering , to stem a tide of malice and party , that certain authors have raised against it ; the best ...
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... philosopher , he shone forth with distinguished lustre . His conversation took a different turn from what had been usual with him ; and as we are assured by Lord Orrery , who knew him , it united the wisdom of Socrates , the dignity and ...
... philosopher , he shone forth with distinguished lustre . His conversation took a different turn from what had been usual with him ; and as we are assured by Lord Orrery , who knew him , it united the wisdom of Socrates , the dignity and ...
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... philosopher . His aims were equally great and extensive in both capacities : unwilling to sub- mit to any in the one , or any authority in the other , he entered the fields of science with a thorough contempt of all that had been ...
... philosopher . His aims were equally great and extensive in both capacities : unwilling to sub- mit to any in the one , or any authority in the other , he entered the fields of science with a thorough contempt of all that had been ...
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... philosophers owed their being particularly admired by the rest of Europe . The romantic system of Descartes was adapted to the taste of the superficial and the indolent ; the foreign universities had embraced it with ardour , and such ...
... philosophers owed their being particularly admired by the rest of Europe . The romantic system of Descartes was adapted to the taste of the superficial and the indolent ; the foreign universities had embraced it with ardour , and such ...
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... philosopher . » It is certain , that the preference which this royal scholar gave to Mau- pertuis was the cause of Voltaire's disagreement with him . Voltaire could not bear to see a man whose talents he had no great opinion of ...
... philosopher . » It is certain , that the preference which this royal scholar gave to Mau- pertuis was the cause of Voltaire's disagreement with him . Voltaire could not bear to see a man whose talents he had no great opinion of ...
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