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Page 20
... confess that it is my humor , my fancy - in the forepart of the day , when the mind of your man of letters requires some relaxation- ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved studies ) to while ...
... confess that it is my humor , my fancy - in the forepart of the day , when the mind of your man of letters requires some relaxation- ( and none better than such as at first sight seems most abhorrent from his beloved studies ) to while ...
Page 36
... confess , that I was never happier , than in them . The Upper and the Lower Grammar Schools were held in the same room ; and an imaginary line only divided their bounds . Their character was as different as that of the inhab- 36 ...
... confess , that I was never happier , than in them . The Upper and the Lower Grammar Schools were held in the same room ; and an imaginary line only divided their bounds . Their character was as different as that of the inhab- 36 ...
Page 49
... confess , for me to suffer by than to refute , namely , that " the title to property in a book ( my Bonaventure , for instance ) , is in exact ratio to the claimant's powers of understanding and appreciating the same . Should he go on ...
... confess , for me to suffer by than to refute , namely , that " the title to property in a book ( my Bonaventure , for instance ) , is in exact ratio to the claimant's powers of understanding and appreciating the same . Should he go on ...
Page 55
... confess a truth ? I feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the ex- penditure of moments and shortest periods , like misers ' farthings . In proportion as the years ...
... confess a truth ? I feel these audits but too powerfully . I begin to count the probabilities of my duration , and to grudge at the ex- penditure of moments and shortest periods , like misers ' farthings . In proportion as the years ...
Page 63
... confess to me , whether , walking in your gallery at Sandham , among those clear Vandykes , or among the Paul Potters in the anteroom , you ever felt your bosom glow with an elegant delight , at all comparable to that you have it in ...
... confess to me , whether , walking in your gallery at Sandham , among those clear Vandykes , or among the Paul Potters in the anteroom , you ever felt your bosom glow with an elegant delight , at all comparable to that you have it in ...
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