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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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It is , therefore , a fair test , if not of philosophical or abstract truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion and common sense ; for it can only expose to instantaneous contempt that which is condemned by public ...
It is , therefore , a fair test , if not of philosophical or abstract truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion and common sense ; for it can only expose to instantaneous contempt that which is condemned by public ...
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On the Love of the Country | 3 |
On the Ignorance of the Learned | 13 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
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| Título | Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 Essays, William Hazlitt Nonesuch library The centenary edition of Hazlitt's Selected essays |
| Autor | William Hazlitt |
| Editor | Geoffrey Keynes |
| Edición | 2, reimpresa |
| Editor | Nonesuch Press, 1948 |
| Largo | 807 páginas |
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