Littell's Living Age, Volume 69Living Age Company Incorporated, 1861 |
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Page 387
... nature , character , and circum- stances quite disqualified Voltaire from be- coming what can with any propriety be termed a philosopher of any kind . He was unable to take a large and general view of most subjects ; to balance the good ...
... nature , character , and circum- stances quite disqualified Voltaire from be- coming what can with any propriety be termed a philosopher of any kind . He was unable to take a large and general view of most subjects ; to balance the good ...
Page 400
... nature , had occasionally a certain melancholy on him ; similar , I think , to that which Kant describes in a commen- tary on an observation of Saussure : species of sadness , " he says , belonging to the bracing emotions , and which ...
... nature , had occasionally a certain melancholy on him ; similar , I think , to that which Kant describes in a commen- tary on an observation of Saussure : species of sadness , " he says , belonging to the bracing emotions , and which ...
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... Natural Selection . By Charles Darwin , M.A. 1859 . The Temple of Nature ; or , the Origin of Society . A Poem . By Erasmus Darwin , M.D. 1803 . From reptiles and fishes to birds we ascend , And quadrupeds next their dimensions extend ...
... Natural Selection . By Charles Darwin , M.A. 1859 . The Temple of Nature ; or , the Origin of Society . A Poem . By Erasmus Darwin , M.D. 1803 . From reptiles and fishes to birds we ascend , And quadrupeds next their dimensions extend ...
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