Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and ReadingBell & Daldy, 1859 - 256 páginas |
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... any English writer , with equal fluency and faithfulness . Whatever other and worthier authors have said in connection with the subjects referred to * Sand . Horace . in the present volume , I have given both com- vi PREFACE .
... any English writer , with equal fluency and faithfulness . Whatever other and worthier authors have said in connection with the subjects referred to * Sand . Horace . in the present volume , I have given both com- vi PREFACE .
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... present or perpetual inter- est ; whilst my recollection of what such authors have said enables me to make a pretty fair estimate of the originality of that portion of the work which is evidently presented as my own . Any person of ...
... present or perpetual inter- est ; whilst my recollection of what such authors have said enables me to make a pretty fair estimate of the originality of that portion of the work which is evidently presented as my own . Any person of ...
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... present work , a desire to avoid verbiage , even to the degree of hazard- ing the charge of abruptness . The latter fault , if it exists , it is hoped will be pardoned by the reader , because the writer has wished to offer him what he ...
... present work , a desire to avoid verbiage , even to the degree of hazard- ing the charge of abruptness . The latter fault , if it exists , it is hoped will be pardoned by the reader , because the writer has wished to offer him what he ...
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... present day seem to be chiefly dogmatical religious , and substantial intel- lectual acquirements ; to give a wide range of sym- . pathy , and a generosity of character , seems not to enter into the ideas of one educator out of twenty ...
... present day seem to be chiefly dogmatical religious , and substantial intel- lectual acquirements ; to give a wide range of sym- . pathy , and a generosity of character , seems not to enter into the ideas of one educator out of twenty ...
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... present yourself again with such propositions to the Athenians . " Mr. Hallam speaks of the three spirits of liberty , religion , and honour , as characterizing modern times ( Middle Ages , 111 . 478 ) ; which of them was absent here ...
... present yourself again with such propositions to the Athenians . " Mr. Hallam speaks of the three spirits of liberty , religion , and honour , as characterizing modern times ( Middle Ages , 111 . 478 ) ; which of them was absent here ...
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Página 54 - We do not see that, while we still affect by all means a rigid external formality, we may as soon fall again into a gross conforming stupidity, a stark and dead congealment of wood and hay and stubble...
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