Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830Read Books Ltd, 2013 M04 18 - 830 páginas Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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... mind as vulgar and mechanical men,—though to know almost any one of them in perfection requires long time and practice, with powers originally fitted, and a turn of mind particularly devoted to them. It does not require more than this ...
... mind as vulgar and mechanical men,—though to know almost any one of them in perfection requires long time and practice, with powers originally fitted, and a turn of mind particularly devoted to them. It does not require more than this ...
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... mind; or the shame of the thing, and the hardships and restraint imposed upon him while young, shall urge some desperate spendthrift to wipe out the reproach upon his name by a course of extravagance and debauchery; and his immediate ...
... mind; or the shame of the thing, and the hardships and restraint imposed upon him while young, shall urge some desperate spendthrift to wipe out the reproach upon his name by a course of extravagance and debauchery; and his immediate ...
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... mind can form no larger idea of space than the eye can take in at a single glance. The rest is a name written in a map, a calculation of arithmetic. For instance, what is the true signification of that immense mass of territory and ...
... mind can form no larger idea of space than the eye can take in at a single glance. The rest is a name written in a map, a calculation of arithmetic. For instance, what is the true signification of that immense mass of territory and ...
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... mind, and carries it out of itself, as it were, into the page of history. Our thoughts are expanded with the scene ... minds from the pressure of misfortune, by the aid of its very violence. They are projected, in the explosion of events ...
... mind, and carries it out of itself, as it were, into the page of history. Our thoughts are expanded with the scene ... minds from the pressure of misfortune, by the aid of its very violence. They are projected, in the explosion of events ...
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... minds only on trifles, and have not a compass of soul to take an interest in anything truly great and important beyond forms and minutiæ. Such persons are really men of little minds, or may be ... mind, and made failure the bitter test.
... minds only on trifles, and have not a compass of soul to take an interest in anything truly great and important beyond forms and minutiæ. Such persons are really men of little minds, or may be ... mind, and made failure the bitter test.
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