A Tale of a TubPenguin UK, 2004 M09 2 - 144 pages Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization, and helped make us who we are. |
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... authors are indebted for * ... their fame . Of faction , because . Hiatus in MS ... Of poetry , because its orators do perorare with a song ; and because , climbing up by slow degrees , fate is sure to turn them off before they can ...
... authors are indebted for * ... their fame . Of faction , because . Hiatus in MS ... Of poetry , because its orators do perorare with a song ; and because , climbing up by slow degrees , fate is sure to turn them off before they can ...
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... authors , as unworthy their established post in the commonwealth of wit and learning . Their own consciences will easily inform them whom I mean ; nor has the world been so negligent a looker - on as not to observe the continual efforts ...
... authors , as unworthy their established post in the commonwealth of wit and learning . Their own consciences will easily inform them whom I mean ; nor has the world been so negligent a looker - on as not to observe the continual efforts ...
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... author was a Pythagorean philosopher. This dark treatise contains the whole scheme of the Metempsychosis, deducing the progress of the soul through all her stages. The next is Dr Faustus, penned by Artephius, an author bonae notae, and ...
... author was a Pythagorean philosopher. This dark treatise contains the whole scheme of the Metempsychosis, deducing the progress of the soul through all her stages. The next is Dr Faustus, penned by Artephius, an author bonae notae, and ...
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... author has so exhausted the subject, that a penetrating reader will easily discover whatever has been written since upon that dispute to be little more than repetition. An abstract of this treatise has been lately published by a worthy ...
... author has so exhausted the subject, that a penetrating reader will easily discover whatever has been written since upon that dispute to be little more than repetition. An abstract of this treatise has been lately published by a worthy ...
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... authors of that age have not sufficiently illustrated . For about this time it happened a sect arose whose tenets obtained and spread very far , especially in the grand monde , and among everybody of good fashion . They worshipped a sort.
... authors of that age have not sufficiently illustrated . For about this time it happened a sect arose whose tenets obtained and spread very far , especially in the grand monde , and among everybody of good fashion . They worshipped a sort.
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