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... proportion to the greatness of his services. Agricola is a strong instance of this. No man had done greater things, nor with more honest ambition. Yet, on his return to court, he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a ...
... proportion to the greatness of his services. Agricola is a strong instance of this. No man had done greater things, nor with more honest ambition. Yet, on his return to court, he was obliged to enter Rome with all the secrecy of a ...
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... proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature, and turned our reason against itself, in that proportion have we increased the follies and miseries of mankind. The more deeply we penetrate into the labyrinth of art ...
... proportion as we have deviated from the plain rule of our nature, and turned our reason against itself, in that proportion have we increased the follies and miseries of mankind. The more deeply we penetrate into the labyrinth of art ...
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... PROPORTION NOT THE CAUSE OF BEAUTY IN VEGETABLES. Beauty hath usually been said to consist in certain proportions of parts. On considering the matter, I have great reason to doubt, whether beauty be at all an idea belonging to proportion ...
... PROPORTION NOT THE CAUSE OF BEAUTY IN VEGETABLES. Beauty hath usually been said to consist in certain proportions of parts. On considering the matter, I have great reason to doubt, whether beauty be at all an idea belonging to proportion ...
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... proportion. They are discovered by mensuration, and they are the objects of mathematical inquiry. But whether any ... proportion can in any sense be considered as the cause of beauty, as hath been so generally, and, by some, so ...
... proportion. They are discovered by mensuration, and they are the objects of mathematical inquiry. But whether any ... proportion can in any sense be considered as the cause of beauty, as hath been so generally, and, by some, so ...
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... proportion considered as a natural cause; and these, if he thinks them just, I request the reader to carry with him throughout the following discussion; whilst we inquire, in the first place, in what things we find this quality of ...
... proportion considered as a natural cause; and these, if he thinks them just, I request the reader to carry with him throughout the following discussion; whilst we inquire, in the first place, in what things we find this quality of ...
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