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  • Idealismekredsen ved Institut for Filosofi og Idehistorie, Aarhus Universitet er en studie - og forskningsgruppe for personer med interesse for den tyske idealisme - den periode i den europæiske filosofis historie, der (groft sagt) indledtes med publiceringen af Kants

    Blogbot - forsiden 2010

  • Selvfølgelig skal sådan en liste tages med en sæk groft vejsalt.

    Blogbot - forsiden 2008

  • Clementina endeavours, by groft adulation, to atone to Cauftic for fever al indignities with whkh'titt had previously treated bim, and w joined by Dafhall, her adtnij-ery wlio, at t'h c* fa me trme, endeavour* by a 4ham speculation on muffs and tippets ', to defraud' her - father out of five thoufand pounds.

    Sporting Magazine 1796

  • Unmix'd hit nature, and foblim'd hit pow'rfy From all the groft allay that tempert ours |

    A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain.. 1794

  • It nee to urge their commands upon people: by which, had their power continued, groft qpiorance would foon have bin rpreadovjeFthc£aceofdwland« From whencebath come the grols ignoranoe of Popery, but from the prevailing of this principle f By which the peopk have been Drought in fuch iubjedion under their guides, that they have loft tlicir under*. ftandingft ia themacters of Religiom.

    Irenicvm: To the Lovers of Truth & Peace ... 1653

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