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Instead of storing the memory , during the period when the memory is the predominant faculty , with facts for the after exercise of the judgement ; and instead of awakening by the noblest models the fond and unmixed Love and ADMIRATION ...
Instead of storing the memory , during the period when the memory is the predominant faculty , with facts for the after exercise of the judgement ; and instead of awakening by the noblest models the fond and unmixed Love and ADMIRATION ...
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At a very premature age , even before my fifteenth year , I had beI wildered myself in metaphysicks , and in theological controversy . Nothing else pleased me . History , and particular facts , lost all interest in my mind .
At a very premature age , even before my fifteenth year , I had beI wildered myself in metaphysicks , and in theological controversy . Nothing else pleased me . History , and particular facts , lost all interest in my mind .
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Supposed irritability of men of Genius - Brought to the test of Facts -- Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . ܪ I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward ...
Supposed irritability of men of Genius - Brought to the test of Facts -- Causes and Occasions of the charge - Its Injustice . ܪ I have often thought , that it would be neither uninstructive nor unamusing to analyze , and bring forward ...
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This is one instance among many of deception , by the telling the half of a fact , and omitting the other half , when it is from their mutual counteraction and neutralization , that the whole truth arises , as a tertiam aliquid ...
This is one instance among many of deception , by the telling the half of a fact , and omitting the other half , when it is from their mutual counteraction and neutralization , that the whole truth arises , as a tertiam aliquid ...
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But what gives an additional and more ludicrous absurdity to these lamentations is the curious fact , that if in a volame of poetry the critic should find poem or passage which he deems more especially worthless , he is sure to select ...
But what gives an additional and more ludicrous absurdity to these lamentations is the curious fact , that if in a volame of poetry the critic should find poem or passage which he deems more especially worthless , he is sure to select ...
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