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His reputation lies at the circumference ; and the lights of his understanding are reflected , with increasing lustre , on the other side of the globe . His name is little known in England , better in Europe , best of all in the plains ...
His reputation lies at the circumference ; and the lights of his understanding are reflected , with increasing lustre , on the other side of the globe . His name is little known in England , better in Europe , best of all in the plains ...
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Perhaps the weak side of his conclusions also is , that he has carried this single view of his subject too far , and not made sufficient allowance for the varieties of human nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the human will ...
Perhaps the weak side of his conclusions also is , that he has carried this single view of his subject too far , and not made sufficient allowance for the varieties of human nature , and the caprices and irregularities of the human will ...
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Could our imagination take wing ( with our speculative faculties ) to the other side of the globe or to the ends of the universe , could our eyes behold whatever our reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our ...
Could our imagination take wing ( with our speculative faculties ) to the other side of the globe or to the ends of the universe , could our eyes behold whatever our reason teaches us to be possible , could our hands reach as far as our ...
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Or the rattle - snake that he found by his side as a bedfellow ? Or his rolling himself into a ball to escape from him ? Or his suddenly placing himself against a tree to avoid being trampled to death by the herd of wild buffaloes ...
Or the rattle - snake that he found by his side as a bedfellow ? Or his rolling himself into a ball to escape from him ? Or his suddenly placing himself against a tree to avoid being trampled to death by the herd of wild buffaloes ...
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He who has seen à mouldering tower by the side of a chrystal lake , hid by the mist , but glittering in the wave below , may conceive the dim , gleaming , uncertain intellieye : he who has marked the evening clouds uprolled ( a world of ...
He who has seen à mouldering tower by the side of a chrystal lake , hid by the mist , but glittering in the wave below , may conceive the dim , gleaming , uncertain intellieye : he who has marked the evening clouds uprolled ( a world of ...
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