The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... truth . It is no wonder , therefore , that even such authors as Isocrates , Plato , and Cicero , should have such little blemishes as are not to be met with in authors of a much inferior character , who have written since those several ...
... truth . It is no wonder , therefore , that even such authors as Isocrates , Plato , and Cicero , should have such little blemishes as are not to be met with in authors of a much inferior character , who have written since those several ...
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... truth On all sides round ; whereat I deemed it best To lead my willing mother upwardly And set my Themis face to face with Zeus As willing to receive her . Tartarus , With its abysmal cloister of the Dark , Because I gave that counsel ...
... truth On all sides round ; whereat I deemed it best To lead my willing mother upwardly And set my Themis face to face with Zeus As willing to receive her . Tartarus , With its abysmal cloister of the Dark , Because I gave that counsel ...
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... of the earth in past periods by means of geological maps are , of course , but approximations of the truth , and will compare with those of future times when the phenomena are 34 AGASSIZ JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ ...
... of the earth in past periods by means of geological maps are , of course , but approximations of the truth , and will compare with those of future times when the phenomena are 34 AGASSIZ JEAN LOUIS RODOLPHE AGASSIZ ...
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... truth that these an- cient geographical maps bear to the modern ones . But this should not discourage us , for , after all , those maps were in the main true as far as they went ; and as the ancient geographers were laying the ...
... truth that these an- cient geographical maps bear to the modern ones . But this should not discourage us , for , after all , those maps were in the main true as far as they went ; and as the ancient geographers were laying the ...
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... truth of Werner's theory began to be shaken . A subsequent visit to the region of extinct volcanoes in Auvergne , in the south of France , convinced him that the aqueous theory was at least partially wrong , and that fire had been an ...
... truth of Werner's theory began to be shaken . A subsequent visit to the region of extinct volcanoes in Auvergne , in the south of France , convinced him that the aqueous theory was at least partially wrong , and that fire had been an ...
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