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She seemed a full moon rising and a gazelle browsing, a girl of nine plus five288 shaming the moon and sun, even as saith of her the sayer eloquent and ingenious,
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Such is the doctrine of this illustrious philosopher (in so far as I gather it from his own words); it is one which, had it been less ingenious,
The Ethics 2007
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I shall add no other observations made on this minute Animal, being prevented herein by many excellent ones already publish'd by the ingenious,
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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Napoleon looking up into the stars, answers, "Very ingenious,
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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