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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... philosopher's way , in all ages , has been by erecting certain edifices in the air : but , whatever practice and reputation these kind of structures have formerly possessed , or may still continue in , not excepting even that of ...
... philosopher's way , in all ages , has been by erecting certain edifices in the air : but , whatever practice and reputation these kind of structures have formerly possessed , or may still continue in , not excepting even that of ...
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... philosophers and great clerks , whose chief art in division has been to grow fond of some proper mystical number , which their imaginations have rendered sacred , to a degree , that they force common reason to find room for it , in ...
... philosophers and great clerks , whose chief art in division has been to grow fond of some proper mystical number , which their imaginations have rendered sacred , to a degree , that they force common reason to find room for it , in ...
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... attention in public there is of necessity required a superior position of place . But , although this point be generally granted , yet the cause is little agreed in ; and it seems to me that very few philosophers have fallen into a true ,
... attention in public there is of necessity required a superior position of place . But , although this point be generally granted , yet the cause is little agreed in ; and it seems to me that very few philosophers have fallen into a true ,
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Jonathan Swift. that very few philosophers have fallen into a true , natural solution of this phenomenon . The deepest account , and the most fairly digested of any I have yet met with , is this ; that air being a heavy body , and ...
Jonathan Swift. that very few philosophers have fallen into a true , natural solution of this phenomenon . The deepest account , and the most fairly digested of any I have yet met with , is this ; that air being a heavy body , and ...
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... 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 an adeptus; he published ...
... 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 an adeptus; he published ...
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