Animal Conventions in English Renaissance Non-religious Prose, 1550-1600 |
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Though Topsell made some attempt to achieve scientific accuracy in his treatment of living creatures , he mingled with whatever accurate observations he was able to make20 much of the traditional lore which he had gathered from ancient ...
Though Topsell made some attempt to achieve scientific accuracy in his treatment of living creatures , he mingled with whatever accurate observations he was able to make20 much of the traditional lore which he had gathered from ancient ...
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6 8 From popular tradition came conventional ideas about many other native creatures " besides those which already have been mentioned . It should be stated in passing that such ideas as those about the deer's antlers as the symbol of ...
6 8 From popular tradition came conventional ideas about many other native creatures " besides those which already have been mentioned . It should be stated in passing that such ideas as those about the deer's antlers as the symbol of ...
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83 Germanicus , in " Germanicus and Agrippina , " considering " natures lawes , which in the dooynges of creatures without reason are playnly set downe , " tells Agrippina that she “ shall see no living wight in the universall world ...
83 Germanicus , in " Germanicus and Agrippina , " considering " natures lawes , which in the dooynges of creatures without reason are playnly set downe , " tells Agrippina that she “ shall see no living wight in the universall world ...
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