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We cannot but hope , that the ferment of opinion , upon every debateable
question , which distinguishes our age and country , is a process which , out of
chaos , not only will produce forms beautiful and new , but which , on the retiring
of the ...
We cannot but hope , that the ferment of opinion , upon every debateable
question , which distinguishes our age and country , is a process which , out of
chaos , not only will produce forms beautiful and new , but which , on the retiring
of the ...
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... fragrant and beautiful flower upon its surface , to the mere aliment of its
inhabitants . It is a coarse and selfish doctrine , worthy of man only in an early
stage of his progress , and always indicative , when found in more advanced
communities ...
... fragrant and beautiful flower upon its surface , to the mere aliment of its
inhabitants . It is a coarse and selfish doctrine , worthy of man only in an early
stage of his progress , and always indicative , when found in more advanced
communities ...
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We earnestly deprecate , therefore , the doctrines of that school which would
pass over or thrust aside the knowledge or the enjoyments of the beautiful ,
because it is not always linked with the products of the mathematics , or capable
of ...
We earnestly deprecate , therefore , the doctrines of that school which would
pass over or thrust aside the knowledge or the enjoyments of the beautiful ,
because it is not always linked with the products of the mathematics , or capable
of ...
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Florence was a republic when Cosmo de ' Medici sheltered and honoured the
fugitive philosophers of the lower empire , and garnered in the boson of his
native city most that the world then knew of the beautiful in art and the great in
letters .
Florence was a republic when Cosmo de ' Medici sheltered and honoured the
fugitive philosophers of the lower empire , and garnered in the boson of his
native city most that the world then knew of the beautiful in art and the great in
letters .
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The convenient succeeds the rude , and men begin to look beyond mere
usefulness for the beautiful . The material creation in all its natural and artificial
forms , is pervaded with a portion of that spirit , which clothes the ruins of antiquity
with ...
The convenient succeeds the rude , and men begin to look beyond mere
usefulness for the beautiful . The material creation in all its natural and artificial
forms , is pervaded with a portion of that spirit , which clothes the ruins of antiquity
with ...
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