Essays in a Series of LettersH.G. Bohn, 1863 - 342 pages |
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... appear so different from that of the second , as to give an impression of something like inconsistency . The second may be thought to have an appearance of representing that a man may effect almost every thing , the third that he can ...
... appear so different from that of the second , as to give an impression of something like inconsistency . The second may be thought to have an appearance of representing that a man may effect almost every thing , the third that he can ...
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... appear contradictory . The author appeals to the experience of such thinking men as are accustomed to commit their thoughts to writing , whether sometimes , on comparing the pages in which they had endeavoured to place one truth in the ...
... appear contradictory . The author appeals to the experience of such thinking men as are accustomed to commit their thoughts to writing , whether sometimes , on comparing the pages in which they had endeavoured to place one truth in the ...
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... appearing in distinct bright points and gems , is modified and mixed up throughout the whole consistence of the diction , so as at once to lose its own venerable character , and to give a pervading uncouthness , without dignity , to the ...
... appearing in distinct bright points and gems , is modified and mixed up throughout the whole consistence of the diction , so as at once to lose its own venerable character , and to give a pervading uncouthness , without dignity , to the ...
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... appears with such momentous importance in the one , is , in comparison , a trife in the other .... Our fine writers employ and justify antichristian motives to action , especially the love of fame .... The morality of this passion ...
... appears with such momentous importance in the one , is , in comparison , a trife in the other .... Our fine writers employ and justify antichristian motives to action , especially the love of fame .... The morality of this passion ...
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... appears longer or shorter . It may happen that some memorable circumstance of very early life shall be so powerfully recalled , as to contract the wide intervening space , by banishing from the view , a 8 ON A MAN'S WRITING.
... appears longer or shorter . It may happen that some memorable circumstance of very early life shall be so powerfully recalled , as to contract the wide intervening space , by banishing from the view , a 8 ON A MAN'S WRITING.
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