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I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty , provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question . The controversies , occasioned by my ...
I never object to a certain degree of disputatiousness in a young man from the age of seventeen to that of four or five and twenty , provided I find him always arguing on one side of the question . The controversies , occasioned by my ...
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have not yet seen ; * but his specification of the terms in question has been clearly shown to be both insufficient and erroneous by Mr. Wordsworth in the preface added to the late collection of his “ Lyrical Ballads and other poems .
have not yet seen ; * but his specification of the terms in question has been clearly shown to be both insufficient and erroneous by Mr. Wordsworth in the preface added to the late collection of his “ Lyrical Ballads and other poems .
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But the latter clause involves for the greater part a mere question of fact and history , and the accuracy of the statement is to be tried by documents rather than reasoning . First then , I deny Hobbs's claim in toto : for he had been ...
But the latter clause involves for the greater part a mere question of fact and history , and the accuracy of the statement is to be tried by documents rather than reasoning . First then , I deny Hobbs's claim in toto : for he had been ...
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Whether any other philosophy be possible , but the mechanical ; and again , whether the mechanical system can have any claim to be called philosophy ; are questions for another place . It is , however , certain , that as long as we deny ...
Whether any other philosophy be possible , but the mechanical ; and again , whether the mechanical system can have any claim to be called philosophy ; are questions for another place . It is , however , certain , that as long as we deny ...
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All trick or conspiracy was out of the question . Not only had the young woman ever been an harmless , simple creature ; but she was evidently labouring under a nervous fever . In the town , in which she had been resident for many years ...
All trick or conspiracy was out of the question . Not only had the young woman ever been an harmless , simple creature ; but she was evidently labouring under a nervous fever . In the town , in which she had been resident for many years ...
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| Title | Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions Volume 1 of Biographia Literaria; Or Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions, Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Author | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| Publisher | Fenner, 1817 |
| Original from | the Bavarian State Library |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2009 |
| Length | 296 pages |
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