Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... destroy at one stroke about eight - tenths of all the wit , ancient and modern , now existing in the world ; and I fancy we shall never have the same excuse for such a measure , that the Dutch had for destroying their spices - the fear ...
... destroy at one stroke about eight - tenths of all the wit , ancient and modern , now existing in the world ; and I fancy we shall never have the same excuse for such a measure , that the Dutch had for destroying their spices - the fear ...
Page 11
... destroys it by a sudden one . We should have as many Petrarchs as Antonies , were not Lauras much more scarce than Cleopatras . IX . THOSE orators who give us much noise and many words , but little argument and less wit , and who are ...
... destroys it by a sudden one . We should have as many Petrarchs as Antonies , were not Lauras much more scarce than Cleopatras . IX . THOSE orators who give us much noise and many words , but little argument and less wit , and who are ...
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... destroy ; such would be totally silent if they were absolutely blind , and their ability to write would instantly cease with their ability to read . They could neither draw , like Shakspeare , on ima- gination ; like Bacon , on ...
... destroy ; such would be totally silent if they were absolutely blind , and their ability to write would instantly cease with their ability to read . They could neither draw , like Shakspeare , on ima- gination ; like Bacon , on ...
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... destroys their powers , without in the slgihtest manner affecting their organization . The optic nerve then . it seems , and the eye , are both necessary to vision , but are they all that is necessary ? certainly not ; because IN FEW ...
... destroys their powers , without in the slgihtest manner affecting their organization . The optic nerve then . it seems , and the eye , are both necessary to vision , but are they all that is necessary ? certainly not ; because IN FEW ...
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... destroy the powers of vision , the optic nerve and the eye both re- maining unaltered , and undisturbed . How then are these effects produced ; are their causes always mechanical as from pressure , or the violence of a blow ? no , they ...
... destroy the powers of vision , the optic nerve and the eye both re- maining unaltered , and undisturbed . How then are these effects produced ; are their causes always mechanical as from pressure , or the violence of a blow ? no , they ...
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