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... darkness and uncertainty of your science . I never darkened it with absurd and contradictory notions , nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry . You have ex- cluded me from any share in the conduct of my own cause ; the science was ...
... darkness and uncertainty of your science . I never darkened it with absurd and contradictory notions , nor confounded it with chicane and sophistry . You have ex- cluded me from any share in the conduct of my own cause ; the science was ...
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... Darkness considered XV . Darkness terrible in its own nature XVI . Why darkness is terrible XVII . The effects of Blackness XVIII . The effects of Blackness moderated XIX . The physical cause of Love · XXI . Sweetness , its nature XX ...
... Darkness considered XV . Darkness terrible in its own nature XVI . Why darkness is terrible XVII . The effects of Blackness XVIII . The effects of Blackness moderated XIX . The physical cause of Love · XXI . Sweetness , its nature XX ...
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... darkness . Summer , when the earth is clad in green , when the heavens are serene and bright , is more agreeable than winter , when every thing makes a different appearance . I never remember that any thing beautiful , whether a man , a ...
... darkness . Summer , when the earth is clad in green , when the heavens are serene and bright , is more agreeable than winter , when every thing makes a different appearance . I never remember that any thing beautiful , whether a man , a ...
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... darkness and light , the shades of colors , all these are very easily distin- guished when the difference is any way considerable , but not when it is minute , for want of some common measures , which perhaps may never come to be ...
... darkness and light , the shades of colors , all these are very easily distin- guished when the difference is any way considerable , but not when it is minute , for want of some common measures , which perhaps may never come to be ...
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... darkness from their minds . But they who have cultivated that species of knowledge which makes the object of taste , by degrees and habitually attain not only a soundness , but a readiness of judgment , as men do by the same methods on ...
... darkness from their minds . But they who have cultivated that species of knowledge which makes the object of taste , by degrees and habitually attain not only a soundness , but a readiness of judgment , as men do by the same methods on ...
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