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Page 41
... the instructiveness of a character , are so modified and particularized in each person of the Shaksperian Drama , that life itself does not excite more distinctly that sense of individuality which belongs to real existence .
... the instructiveness of a character , are so modified and particularized in each person of the Shaksperian Drama , that life itself does not excite more distinctly that sense of individuality which belongs to real existence .
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For facts are valuable to a wise man , chiefly as they lead to the discovery of the indwelling law , which is the true being of things , the sole solution of their modes of existence , and in the knowledge of which consists our dignity ...
For facts are valuable to a wise man , chiefly as they lead to the discovery of the indwelling law , which is the true being of things , the sole solution of their modes of existence , and in the knowledge of which consists our dignity ...
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Not to mention , that the language so highly extolled by Mr. Wordsworth varies in every county , nay in every village , according to the accidental character of the clergyman , the existence or non - existence of schools ; or even ...
Not to mention , that the language so highly extolled by Mr. Wordsworth varies in every county , nay in every village , according to the accidental character of the clergyman , the existence or non - existence of schools ; or even ...
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... is equivolant to the idea of a thing , whenever we use the word idea , with philosophic precision . Existence , on the other hand , is distinguished from essence , by ܪ the superinduction of reality . Thus we speak of 62.
... is equivolant to the idea of a thing , whenever we use the word idea , with philosophic precision . Existence , on the other hand , is distinguished from essence , by ܪ the superinduction of reality . Thus we speak of 62.
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Thus too , without any tautology we contend for the existence of the Supreme Being ; that is , for a reality correspondent to the idea . There is , next , a secondary use of the word essence , in which it signifies the pointorground of ...
Thus too , without any tautology we contend for the existence of the Supreme Being ; that is , for a reality correspondent to the idea . There is , next , a secondary use of the word essence , in which it signifies the pointorground of ...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Volume 2 Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 309 pages |
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