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Besides, Leibniz, Lambert, Ploucquet and Segner had anticipated the law “perfectly explicitly” and he had no doubts “that any one better acquainted than myself with the Leibnitzian and Wolfian logicians could add many more such notices” (Venn 1881, xxxi, footnote 1).
Leibniz's Influence on 19th Century Logic Peckhaus, Volker 2009
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Lutheran or Wolfian conjurors with words this was egregious shallowness.
Voltaire 2007
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Few things, in my opinion, can be more improbable; and Mr. Payne Knight, opposed as he is to the Wolfian hypothesis, admits this no less than Wolf himself.
The Odyssey of Homer 2003
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Few things, in my opinion, can be more improbable; and Mr. Payne Knight, opposed as he is to the Wolfian hypothesis, admits this no less than Wolf himself.
The Iliad of Homer 2003
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The Wolfian hypothesis he by no means adopts -- namely, that before the time of Pisistratus, there was no such thing in existence as an extended and entire epic, but that the two great epics we now possess were then constructed by stringing together a number of detached poems, the separate chants of the old Greek bards or rhapsodists.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
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The Wolfian ideas have been expanded and developed; and advanced Catholic apologists have set themselves to the task of reconciling our ancient traditions with the discoveries of modern science.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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Though for a time the Wolfian theory had many advocates, it is now generally conceded that although the stories of the fall of Troy were current long before Homer, they were collected and recast into one poem by some great poet.
National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901
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In the Wolfian system, Leibnitz's conception of development was suffered to drop out of sight, and the dynamic element which animated his speculation disappeared.
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894
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Hermaphrodism is a common attribute in the vegetable kingdom, where fixed habitation or position makes such a condition necessary; it is also common to many of our lower forms of animal life, and even in the human foetus the presence of the Wolfian bodies and the canal of Müller in the same individual attest a primitive case or condition of hermaphrodism.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Wolfian theory, which seeks to reduce him to a Demodocus, singing fragmentary lays about the Trojan War.
Homer's Odyssey A Commentary Denton Jaques Snider 1883
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