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  • Similitude, which is said to have taken up no more space than 1260 hides of cattle: as also the 25,000, or, as some say, 36,000 volumes, besides

    Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807

  • "Similitude" is a that man can use to work with higher

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows czaragon 2009

  • Similitude thus gives a dynamic structure to the entire hierarchy of being and at the same time acts as the essential link between the intellect and the rest of the hierarchy.

    Dietrich of Freiberg Führer, Markus 2009

  • Similitude – expansion from the single idea of a simile to form a picture

    Parables ��� Original of 2008

  • Through the whole Piece you may observe such a Similitude of Manners in high and low Life, that it is difficult to determine whether (in the fashionable Vices) the fine

    The Beggar's Opera 2007

  • Under the Similitude of a Dream... (1800) (a knock-off of the Pilgrim's Progress, first published in the mid-18th c.)

    The Little Professor: 2004

  • How it comes to pass that Children have a Greater Similitude with Strangers than with their Parents.

    Sentiments concerning nature with which philosophers were delighted 2004

  • Under the Similitude of a Dream... (1800) (a knock-off of the Pilgrim's Progress, first published in the mid-18th c.)

    Odd 2004

  • Terrors of Hell, lively displayed under the Similitude of a Vision_.

    Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Various

  • Corruption (such an one as belongs to us reasonable Creatures) that then they must perish too, and vanish away, as appears from the Similitude of the Looking-glasses which I have us'd to explain it; because the Image there has no Duration of itself, but what depends upon the Duration of the Looking-glass; and if you break the Glass, the Image is most certainly destroy'd and vanishes.

    The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail

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