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Had I been earlier aware of this , I should have made a different selection , and
one which would do more justice to the range and variety of subjects which have
been before my mind during the ten years that , in the intervals allowed me by ...
Had I been earlier aware of this , I should have made a different selection , and
one which would do more justice to the range and variety of subjects which have
been before my mind during the ten years that , in the intervals allowed me by ...
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In vain for the maker , who knows without learning it , but not in vain for the mind
of his race . The critic is beneath the maker , but is his needed friend . What
tongue could speak but to an intelligent ear , and every noble work demands its
critic .
In vain for the maker , who knows without learning it , but not in vain for the mind
of his race . The critic is beneath the maker , but is his needed friend . What
tongue could speak but to an intelligent ear , and every noble work demands its
critic .
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We do not want merely a polite response to what we thought before , but by the
freshness of thought in other minds to have new thought awakened in our own .
We do not want stores of information only , but to be roused to digest these into ...
We do not want merely a polite response to what we thought before , but by the
freshness of thought in other minds to have new thought awakened in our own .
We do not want stores of information only , but to be roused to digest these into ...
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The following sketch is meant merely to mark some prominent features in the
minds of the two Herberts , under a form less elaborate and more reverent than
that of criticism . A mind of penetrating and creative power could not find a better
...
The following sketch is meant merely to mark some prominent features in the
minds of the two Herberts , under a form less elaborate and more reverent than
that of criticism . A mind of penetrating and creative power could not find a better
...
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few types remain : the Norman tempered by the Saxon , the fire of conquest by
integrity , and a self - contained , inflexible habit of mind . In the times of the
Sydneys and Russells , the English body was a strong and nobly - proportioned
vase ...
few types remain : the Norman tempered by the Saxon , the fire of conquest by
integrity , and a self - contained , inflexible habit of mind . In the times of the
Sydneys and Russells , the English body was a strong and nobly - proportioned
vase ...
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