Theeophrasti Characteres: with notes by J.G. Sheppard1852 |
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... reason why the subjects of mimetic portraiture are properly , as I have described them , nosological specimens of humanity ; examples of weakness and imperfection , not of exalted virtue or abandoned vice . For it is clear that either ...
... reason why the subjects of mimetic portraiture are properly , as I have described them , nosological specimens of humanity ; examples of weakness and imperfection , not of exalted virtue or abandoned vice . For it is clear that either ...
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... reason , that it cannot be readily recognised in the nineteenth century , and in the streets of London . Nor , critically speaking , is this test without its practical value ; for , by applying it , we shall often be enabled to dis ...
... reason , that it cannot be readily recognised in the nineteenth century , and in the streets of London . Nor , critically speaking , is this test without its practical value ; for , by applying it , we shall often be enabled to dis ...
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... reason , at least for this , that he was the favourite pupil of that great teacher who , for more than ten centuries , swayed the empire of the European mind . The impress of the master's intellect To the moral phi- losopher . may be ...
... reason , at least for this , that he was the favourite pupil of that great teacher who , for more than ten centuries , swayed the empire of the European mind . The impress of the master's intellect To the moral phi- losopher . may be ...
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... reason to doubt that this Preface is the work of some pedantic editor , whose interpolations and improvements may perhaps be traced elsewhere . Tñs " EXλados . ] Cas . perceiving the absurdity which we have noticed , wished to read τῆς ...
... reason to doubt that this Preface is the work of some pedantic editor , whose interpolations and improvements may perhaps be traced elsewhere . Tñs " EXλados . ] Cas . perceiving the absurdity which we have noticed , wished to read τῆς ...
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... reason is not conclusive . Flattery , he says , is not expressed by some of the actions here portrayed , e . g . by picking a flock of wool from a great man's dress , or running forward to announce his arrival when he sets out to pay a ...
... reason is not conclusive . Flattery , he says , is not expressed by some of the actions here portrayed , e . g . by picking a flock of wool from a great man's dress , or running forward to announce his arrival when he sets out to pay a ...
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