Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and ReadingBell & Daldy, 1859 - 256 páginas |
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... reference to themselves to have no power of comparison . Their pride is an un- corrected self - adoration . A Spanish proverb says , " Love which has no ends , has no end . " So we " Pride which has no measures , has no may say ...
... reference to themselves to have no power of comparison . Their pride is an un- corrected self - adoration . A Spanish proverb says , " Love which has no ends , has no end . " So we " Pride which has no measures , has no may say ...
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... reference to the subject which we are now considering : - • " There was an awful rainbow once in heaven , We know her woof and texture , she is given In the dull catalogue of common things . Philosophy will clip an angel's wings ...
... reference to the subject which we are now considering : - • " There was an awful rainbow once in heaven , We know her woof and texture , she is given In the dull catalogue of common things . Philosophy will clip an angel's wings ...
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... reference to men , because in modern society their relations have become more extended and mixed . Those of women have been , in propor- tion , far less interfered with , diffused , and weakened ; probably , in their case , the original ...
... reference to men , because in modern society their relations have become more extended and mixed . Those of women have been , in propor- tion , far less interfered with , diffused , and weakened ; probably , in their case , the original ...
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... reference to after discoveries , for what the young find out for themselves will have double the force of what you present to them . All , or , at any rate , most that may be said on the other side of the question is to be found in ...
... reference to after discoveries , for what the young find out for themselves will have double the force of what you present to them . All , or , at any rate , most that may be said on the other side of the question is to be found in ...
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... reference is here made to those unfortunate old worn - out quotations which have become public property . Those who , like Hammond , according to Walton , have not a recollection of the " punctualities and contextures of words . " Swift ...
... reference is here made to those unfortunate old worn - out quotations which have become public property . Those who , like Hammond , according to Walton , have not a recollection of the " punctualities and contextures of words . " Swift ...
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