Other Men's Minds, Or, Seven Thousand Choice Extracts on History, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Etc: Selected from the Standard Authorship of Ancient and Modern Times, and Classified in Alphabetical Order |
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... sin : Here the bones of birth have cried , Though gods they were , as men they died : Here are sands , ignoble things , Dropp'd from the ruin'd sides of kings : Here's a world of pomp and state Buried in dust , once dead by fate .
... sin : Here the bones of birth have cried , Though gods they were , as men they died : Here are sands , ignoble things , Dropp'd from the ruin'd sides of kings : Here's a world of pomp and state Buried in dust , once dead by fate .
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The Habit of Things that differ very greatly one from another , are often found to be alike in some single quality ; and when this one quality is distinctly taken notice of , we readily learn to think of it apart from the other ...
The Habit of Things that differ very greatly one from another , are often found to be alike in some single quality ; and when this one quality is distinctly taken notice of , we readily learn to think of it apart from the other ...
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Thou askest , " said Pyrrhus , " a thing that is self - evident . ... God grant us success in that , " answered Pyrrhus , " and we shall make these only the forerunners of greater things , for then Lybia and Carthage will soon be ours ...
Thou askest , " said Pyrrhus , " a thing that is self - evident . ... God grant us success in that , " answered Pyrrhus , " and we shall make these only the forerunners of greater things , for then Lybia and Carthage will soon be ours ...
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Everyone knows , " says a celebrated author , " that there is such a thing as feeling a proposition to be true , though the understanding may be unable to master it . ... All things that live , and are loveliest , are born there .
Everyone knows , " says a celebrated author , " that there is such a thing as feeling a proposition to be true , though the understanding may be unable to master it . ... All things that live , and are loveliest , are born there .
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He values things wrongfully for their antiquity , forgetting that the most modern are really the most ancient of all things in the world ; like those that reckon their pounds before their shillings and pence , of which they are made up ...
He values things wrongfully for their antiquity , forgetting that the most modern are really the most ancient of all things in the world ; like those that reckon their pounds before their shillings and pence , of which they are made up ...
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| Titel | Other Men's Minds, Or, Seven Thousand Choice Extracts on History, Science, Philosophy, Religion, Etc: Selected from the Standard Authorship of Ancient and Modern Times, and Classified in Alphabetical Order |
| Autor/in | Edwin Davies |
| Verlag | Estes and Lauriat, 1888 |
| Original von | University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitalisiert | 2. Juni 2014 |
| Länge | 640 Seiten |
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