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" Besides, it was talk not flowing any-whither like a river, but spreading every-whither in inextricable currents and regurgitations like a lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intelligibility ; what you were to... "
New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Page 286
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The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - Anecdotes - 1832 - 846 pages
...everywhither in inextricable currents and 481 Ï BT COLERIDGE. 81» PHILIP FRANCIS. régurgitations like a lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite...from it So that, most times, you felt logically lost ; swainped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge...
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The Living Age, Volume 205

1895 - 844 pages
...contradicting Wordsworth, says that it was talk not flowing anywhither like a river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and regurgitations...terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay, often ln logical intelligibility; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately...
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The Life of John Sterling

Thomas Carlyle - 1852 - 362 pages
...superfluities which would never do. Besides, it was talk not flowing anywhither like a river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and regurgitations...felt logically lost ; swamped near to drowning in tliis tide of ingenious vocables, spreading out boundless as if to submerge the world. To sit as a...
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The Christian Remembrancer, Volume 23

Christianity - 1852 - 536 pages
...flowing anywhither like a river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and rcgurgitations like a lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite...thing, obstinately refusing to appear from it. So that, moat times, you felt logically lost ; swamped near to drowning in this tide of ingenious vocalics,...
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The Church of England quarterly review, Volume 31

1852 - 528 pages
...any whither, like a river, but spreading every whither in inextricable currents and rcgurgitations, like a lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite...earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing to appeal from it." As Carlyle truly remarks, " to sit as a passive bucket and be pumped into, whether...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 23

1852 - 532 pages
...flowing auywhither like a river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and regurgitalions like a lake or sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in lo./ical intelligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately...
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Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851)

Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1857 - 432 pages
...it was talk uot flowing anywhither like 1 Biography by Haro, pp. rvi.-xivi. a river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and regurgitations...deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical int2lligibility ; wiiat you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing...
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Life of Friedrich Schiller (1825): Life of John Sterling (1851) : Two ...

Thomas Carlyle - Authors, English - 1857 - 436 pages
...it was talk not flowing anywhither like 1 Biography by Hare, pp. xvi.-xxvi. a river, but spreading everywhither in inextricable currents and regurgitations...deficient in definite goal or aim, nay often in logical intslligibility ; what you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately refusing...
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Anecdote Lives of the Later Wits and Humourists, Volume 1

John Timbs - Humorists - 1874 - 360 pages
...terribly deficient iu definite goal or aim ; nay, often deficient in logical intelligibility — whit you were to believe or do, on any earthly or heavenly thing, obstinately to appear from it. So that most times you felt logically lost — swamped near to drowning in this...
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The Skull and Brain: Their Indications of Character and Anatomical Relations

Nicholas Morgan - Character - 1875 - 288 pages
...than his talk ; besides it was talk not flowing any whither like a river, but spreading every whither in inextricable currents and regurgitations like a...sea ; terribly deficient in definite goal or aim." Now, what of this erratic genius, whose brilliancy shone like a cascade pregnant with sunbeams, and...
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