The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Том 84A. Constable, 1846 |
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... less enviable than that of great poets . The former can never possess so large a circle of readers under any circumstances ; but that number is still fur- ther abridged by the fact , that even the truths they have taught or discovered ...
... less enviable than that of great poets . The former can never possess so large a circle of readers under any circumstances ; but that number is still fur- ther abridged by the fact , that even the truths they have taught or discovered ...
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... less read than many other philosophers whose claims to be remembered are far inferior to his . The cause , we are inclined to think , is owing , in part , to the frag- mentary character of his productions : though enormously volu ...
... less read than many other philosophers whose claims to be remembered are far inferior to his . The cause , we are inclined to think , is owing , in part , to the frag- mentary character of his productions : though enormously volu ...
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... less tedious to play the Courtier , than a philosopher in that situation may be supposed apt to find it . The Prince died in 1679 , but Leibnitz lost nothing by his death ; as his successor , Prince Ernest Augustus , then Bishop of ...
... less tedious to play the Courtier , than a philosopher in that situation may be supposed apt to find it . The Prince died in 1679 , but Leibnitz lost nothing by his death ; as his successor , Prince Ernest Augustus , then Bishop of ...
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... less infinitely more to his taste . Having thus , as it may be thought , laid a moderately solid foundation for the pyramid of his projected work , Leibnitz was to set about the history of Brunswick in earnest ; of course com- mencing ...
... less infinitely more to his taste . Having thus , as it may be thought , laid a moderately solid foundation for the pyramid of his projected work , Leibnitz was to set about the history of Brunswick in earnest ; of course com- mencing ...
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... less strange to say , that every flutter of a gnat's wing was propagated to the utmost limit of the sphere of the fixed stars . In a like strain of confidence does . Leibnitz uniformly speak of his Pre - established Harmony ; he is just ...
... less strange to say , that every flutter of a gnat's wing was propagated to the utmost limit of the sphere of the fixed stars . In a like strain of confidence does . Leibnitz uniformly speak of his Pre - established Harmony ; he is just ...
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