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The men of the greatest genius , as far as we can judge from their own works or from the accounts of their contemporaries , appear to have been of calm and tranquil temper , in all that related to themselves . In the inward assurance of ...
The men of the greatest genius , as far as we can judge from their own works or from the accounts of their contemporaries , appear to have been of calm and tranquil temper , in all that related to themselves . In the inward assurance of ...
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Besides , though it may be paradoxical to assert , that a man can know one thing , and believe the opposite , yet assuredly , a vain person may have so habitually indulged the wish , and persevered in the attempt to appear what he is ...
Besides , though it may be paradoxical to assert , that a man can know one thing , and believe the opposite , yet assuredly , a vain person may have so habitually indulged the wish , and persevered in the attempt to appear what he is ...
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Thus , in part , from the accidental tempers of individuals ( men ( of undoubted talent , but not men of genius ) tempers rendered yet more irritable by their desire to appear men of genius ; but still more effectively by the excesses ...
Thus , in part , from the accidental tempers of individuals ( men ( of undoubted talent , but not men of genius ) tempers rendered yet more irritable by their desire to appear men of genius ; but still more effectively by the excesses ...
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... the habit of reading tomb - stones in church - yards , & c . By the bye , this catalogue strange as it may appear , is not insusceptible of a sound pcychological commentary . will be apt to suspect , that there must be 50.
... the habit of reading tomb - stones in church - yards , & c . By the bye , this catalogue strange as it may appear , is not insusceptible of a sound pcychological commentary . will be apt to suspect , that there must be 50.
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What literary man has not regretted the prudery of Spratt in refusing to let his friend Cowley appear in his slippers and dressing gown ? I am not perhaps the only one who has derived an innocent amusement from the riddles , conundrums ...
What literary man has not regretted the prudery of Spratt in refusing to let his friend Cowley appear in his slippers and dressing gown ? I am not perhaps the only one who has derived an innocent amusement from the riddles , conundrums ...
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