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Page 178
... fancy . Played for a stake , they were a mere system of over - reaching . Played for glory , they were a mere setting of one man's wit , his memory , or combination - faculty rather - against another's ; like a mock - engagement at a ...
... fancy . Played for a stake , they were a mere system of over - reaching . Played for glory , they were a mere setting of one man's wit , his memory , or combination - faculty rather - against another's ; like a mock - engagement at a ...
Page 241
... fancy or opinion , but of actual experiment , in which you must either do the thing or not do it . If a man is put to aim at a mark with a bow and arrow , he must hit it or miss it , that's certain . He cannot deceive himself , and go ...
... fancy or opinion , but of actual experiment , in which you must either do the thing or not do it . If a man is put to aim at a mark with a bow and arrow , he must hit it or miss it , that's certain . He cannot deceive himself , and go ...
Page 386
... fancy , etc. , as he has hands , feet and arms . That is a capital error . Then again , we hear of a man's ' intellectual nature , ' and of his ' moral nature , ' as if these again were divisible , and existed apart . Necessities of ...
... fancy , etc. , as he has hands , feet and arms . That is a capital error . Then again , we hear of a man's ' intellectual nature , ' and of his ' moral nature , ' as if these again were divisible , and existed apart . Necessities of ...
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Abraham Newland admirable beautiful better called character Chioggia church colour Dante delight dinner drama Elena Elizabethan Era English face fancy feel fellow French Gaiety Theatre genius gentlemen Gerado give Goldsmith gondola grace Grand Canal hand head hear heart Hernani honour humour imagination Irenĉus kind lady laugh learned live look Malamocco Malebranche matter Messer mind Molière morning murder nature never Nicolas Poussin night observed Oliver Goldsmith once painted passed passion perhaps person picture play pleasure poem poet poetry poor round Sarah Bernhardt seems sense Shakespeare Sicarii Sir Roger sleep sort soul speak spirit style sweet talk taste tell theatre things thought Tintoretto tion Toad-in-the-hole told town true truth turn Venice verse Victor Hugo walk whist whole wonder words write young
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Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener No preview available - 1989 |
Interpretatio: Language and Translation from Cicero to Tytler Frederick M. Rener Limited preview - 1989 |