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Page 108
... less amusing indeed than own instinctive sagacity , or from a sin- poetry and criticism , but not less gular and unaccountable penetration , important . The extraordinary suc- which at one glance sees all the in- cess of the sceptical ...
... less amusing indeed than own instinctive sagacity , or from a sin- poetry and criticism , but not less gular and unaccountable penetration , important . The extraordinary suc- which at one glance sees all the in- cess of the sceptical ...
Page 118
... less a book , and , if possible , to raise my - pleasing , and consequently less use- self higher in the world . So that , ful . if I were now to accept preferment Most of these reasons were re- in the church , I should be apprehen ...
... less a book , and , if possible , to raise my - pleasing , and consequently less use- self higher in the world . So that , ful . if I were now to accept preferment Most of these reasons were re- in the church , I should be apprehen ...
Page 291
... less every day . I mean , that under him sharpsighted . It is very natural ; we attained not only our highest ele- mine were spirits rather than parts ; vation , but the most solid authority and as time has abated the one , it in Europe ...
... less every day . I mean , that under him sharpsighted . It is very natural ; we attained not only our highest ele- mine were spirits rather than parts ; vation , but the most solid authority and as time has abated the one , it in Europe ...
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