The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and miscellaniesAMS Press, 1979 |
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... reason thus , It is Maelzel's interest to represent this thing a pure machine - he refuses to do so , directly , in words , although he does not scruple , and is evidently anxious to do so , indirectly by actions were it actu- ally what ...
... reason thus , It is Maelzel's interest to represent this thing a pure machine - he refuses to do so , directly , in words , although he does not scruple , and is evidently anxious to do so , indirectly by actions were it actu- ally what ...
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... reason for its continuous repetition , I did not fail to perceive that this difficulty arose solely from the pre - assumption that the word was to be so continuously or monotonously spoken by a human being I did not fail to perceive ...
... reason for its continuous repetition , I did not fail to perceive that this difficulty arose solely from the pre - assumption that the word was to be so continuously or monotonously spoken by a human being I did not fail to perceive ...
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... reason that their leaders have so tumbled before . The Iliad , being taken as a starting point , was made to stand in- stead of Nature and common sense . Upon this poem , in place of facts and deduction from fact , or from natural law ...
... reason that their leaders have so tumbled before . The Iliad , being taken as a starting point , was made to stand in- stead of Nature and common sense . Upon this poem , in place of facts and deduction from fact , or from natural law ...
Contents
Maelzels ChessPlayer | 6 |
Preface and Introduction to the Conchologists | 95 |
The Philosophy of Furniture | 101 |
Copyright | |
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