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Pagina 96
... greatest number of universities have ever been founded in times of the greatest ignorance . New improvements in learning are seldom adopted in colleges until admitted everywhere else . And this is right ; we should always be cautious of ...
... greatest number of universities have ever been founded in times of the greatest ignorance . New improvements in learning are seldom adopted in colleges until admitted everywhere else . And this is right ; we should always be cautious of ...
Pagina 111
... greatest number of uses , in the contemplation of any object may be said to receive the greatest pleasure that object is capable of affording . Thus the barbarian finds some small pleasure in the contemplation of a guinea ; the ...
... greatest number of uses , in the contemplation of any object may be said to receive the greatest pleasure that object is capable of affording . Thus the barbarian finds some small pleasure in the contemplation of a guinea ; the ...
Pagina 156
... greatest part of his king- dom . At last , none of his officers were found ca- pable of following him ; he thus , consequently , rode the greatest part of these journeys quite alone , without taking a moment's repose , and without any ...
... greatest part of his king- dom . At last , none of his officers were found ca- pable of following him ; he thus , consequently , rode the greatest part of these journeys quite alone , without taking a moment's repose , and without any ...
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Of the present state of polite learning in Italy | 27 |
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