Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 |
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How many grains of sense are there in their thousand folio or quarto volumes ? What would the world lose if they were committed to the flames to - morrow ? Or are they not already " gone to the vault of all the Capulets " ?
How many grains of sense are there in their thousand folio or quarto volumes ? What would the world lose if they were committed to the flames to - morrow ? Or are they not already " gone to the vault of all the Capulets " ?
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Again , good sense is a phrase constantly in his mouth , by which he does not mean his own sense or that of anybody else , but the opinions of a number of persons who have agreed to take their opinions on trust from others .
Again , good sense is a phrase constantly in his mouth , by which he does not mean his own sense or that of anybody else , but the opinions of a number of persons who have agreed to take their opinions on trust from others .
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That reason and good sense should be consistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible S C 1 in their results , is the surprising thing .
That reason and good sense should be consistent , is not wonderful : but that caprice , and whim , and fantastical prejudice , should be uniform and infallible S C 1 in their results , is the surprising thing .
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On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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