A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, 1861 - English language |
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... PHILOSOPHY . New Edition , revised , with Notes . Small 8vo , 38. 6d . cloth . III . SPENSER , AND HIS POETRY . New Edition , revised . Small 8vo , 3s . 6d . cloth . Α COMPENDIOUS . HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE , AND OF VOL VOL.
... PHILOSOPHY . New Edition , revised , with Notes . Small 8vo , 38. 6d . cloth . III . SPENSER , AND HIS POETRY . New Edition , revised . Small 8vo , 3s . 6d . cloth . Α COMPENDIOUS . HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE , AND OF VOL VOL.
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... Philosophy • Other Discoveries and Improvements in Natural and Experimental The Royal Society The Steam Engine Science Newton James Gregory , and other Contemporaries of Newton Establishment of the Royal Observatory Medical Science ...
... Philosophy • Other Discoveries and Improvements in Natural and Experimental The Royal Society The Steam Engine Science Newton James Gregory , and other Contemporaries of Newton Establishment of the Royal Observatory Medical Science ...
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... philosopher , did commonly demand , when any new project was propounded unto him , " Cui bono ? " What good would ensue in case the same was effected . A question more fit to be asked than facile to be answered , in all undertakings ...
... philosopher , did commonly demand , when any new project was propounded unto him , " Cui bono ? " What good would ensue in case the same was effected . A question more fit to be asked than facile to be answered , in all undertakings ...
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... philosopher , or of the state of physical knowledge in England ; " * that the Religio Medici shows its author to have been " far removed from real philosophy , both by his turn of mind and by the nature of his erudition ; " and likewise ...
... philosopher , or of the state of physical knowledge in England ; " * that the Religio Medici shows its author to have been " far removed from real philosophy , both by his turn of mind and by the nature of his erudition ; " and likewise ...
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... philosophy of politics . If he has not the merit of absolute originality in his main propositions , they had at least never been so clearly expounded and demonstrated by any preceding writer . NEWSPAPERS . It has now been satisfactorily ...
... philosophy of politics . If he has not the merit of absolute originality in his main propositions , they had at least never been so clearly expounded and demonstrated by any preceding writer . NEWSPAPERS . It has now been satisfactorily ...
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