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... ancient drama . Had Aristotle dis- dained to quote a riddle , still there is no little authority in the wit and labour which have been expended over the ce- lebrated " Ælia Lælia Cuspis . " To him who trusts more to his own sense than ...
... ancient drama . Had Aristotle dis- dained to quote a riddle , still there is no little authority in the wit and labour which have been expended over the ce- lebrated " Ælia Lælia Cuspis . " To him who trusts more to his own sense than ...
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... - ' dual . The first idea of exhibiting a combined view of the Chef d'œuvres of the ancient schools of art , as now practised by the British Institution in Pall Mall , and so Berenger and the Artists ' Fund . " 1815. ]
... - ' dual . The first idea of exhibiting a combined view of the Chef d'œuvres of the ancient schools of art , as now practised by the British Institution in Pall Mall , and so Berenger and the Artists ' Fund . " 1815. ]
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... ancient seats of the principal range of stalls on the south side of the choir are wanting . On the front row of NEW MONTHLY MA6 .-- No . 19 . - 17 stalls on the north side , commencing at the entrance , are the following : - 1. A ...
... ancient seats of the principal range of stalls on the south side of the choir are wanting . On the front row of NEW MONTHLY MA6 .-- No . 19 . - 17 stalls on the north side , commencing at the entrance , are the following : - 1. A ...
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... ancients to be of an etherial nature , and to consist of pure , immaterial , vivific light ; as the following extracts from Aristotle's treatise On the Heavens , lib.i. cap . 3 , abundantly evince : for in them Aristotle expressly says ...
... ancients to be of an etherial nature , and to consist of pure , immaterial , vivific light ; as the following extracts from Aristotle's treatise On the Heavens , lib.i. cap . 3 , abundantly evince : for in them Aristotle expressly says ...
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... ancients did not consider their astronomical hypothesis as realities , but as things possible ; since , as it is well observed by Simplicius , in his Comment on the 12th chapter of Aristotle's trea- tise On the Heavens- " Aristotle ...
... ancients did not consider their astronomical hypothesis as realities , but as things possible ; since , as it is well observed by Simplicius , in his Comment on the 12th chapter of Aristotle's trea- tise On the Heavens- " Aristotle ...
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Page 131 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
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Page 235 - Yet if perchance remember'd, still disdain you 'em More than you scorn the savages of yore, Who painted their bare limbs, but not with gore. is a most extraordinary character. He dines every morning about nine. He sleeps almost naked ; he affects a perfect indifference to heat and cold ; and quits his chamber, which approaches to suffocation, in order to review his troops, in a thin linen jacket, while the thermometer of Reaumur is at ten degrees below freezing. His manners correspond with his humours....
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Page 319 - Colonel Hammond to wait upon you, who was taken by a mistake whilst we lay before this Garrison, whom God safely delivered to us, to our great joy ; but to his loss of almost all he had, which the Enemy took from him.