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adj. - Of or relating to or in the manner of the German poet and novelist and dramatist.

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  • Darwinians who start with inborn variations, but it is open to question whether the whole truth of what we might call the Goethian position is exhausted in the postulate...
  • Looked at then in this way, the book sets before us more fully than any other book of Goethe’s, and in a highly remarkable, if not a perfectly satisfactory way, what we may...
  • The gods, one might say in Goethian phrase, did not intend us to share their own manner of being; or, if you prefer it, in the language of
  • Of such we have had an example in the condition of Europe during the times immediately following the Reformation; another, though limited to the Continent and to a more...
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