Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 |
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different from what they are , there must be a principle of taste and selection - a disposition to make them better , and a power to make them worse . Ask a Parisian milliner if she does not think one bonnet more becoming than another ...
different from what they are , there must be a principle of taste and selection - a disposition to make them better , and a power to make them worse . Ask a Parisian milliner if she does not think one bonnet more becoming than another ...
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It is better than that of lawyers , who talk nothing but double entendre - than that of physicians , who talk of the approaching deaths of the College , or the marriage of some new practitioner with some rich widow —than that of divines ...
It is better than that of lawyers , who talk nothing but double entendre - than that of physicians , who talk of the approaching deaths of the College , or the marriage of some new practitioner with some rich widow —than that of divines ...
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He writes better in favour of Reform than anybody else ; he used to write better against it . Wherever he is , there is the tug of war , the weight of the argument , the strength of abuse . He is not like a man in danger of being bed ...
He writes better in favour of Reform than anybody else ; he used to write better against it . Wherever he is , there is the tug of war , the weight of the argument , the strength of abuse . He is not like a man in danger of being bed ...
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On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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