Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 3-4D. Appleton, 1879 |
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Page 23
... equally fortunate in bis other discovery . " Laude conspurcare , " whatever he may think , is not an improper phrase . Mackintosh meant to say that there are men whose praise is a disgrace . No person , we are sure , who has read this ...
... equally fortunate in bis other discovery . " Laude conspurcare , " whatever he may think , is not an improper phrase . Mackintosh meant to say that there are men whose praise is a disgrace . No person , we are sure , who has read this ...
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... equally diffused ignorance , this omninescience , if we may carry the “ hardi- hood of our vocabulary " so far as to coin a new word for what is to us quite a new thing . We take the first page on which we open as a fair sample , and no ...
... equally diffused ignorance , this omninescience , if we may carry the “ hardi- hood of our vocabulary " so far as to coin a new word for what is to us quite a new thing . We take the first page on which we open as a fair sample , and no ...
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... equally abundant harvest of error and impotence . What most disgusts us is the contempt with which the writer thinks fit to speak of all things that were done before the coming in of the very last fashions in politics . What he thinks ...
... equally abundant harvest of error and impotence . What most disgusts us is the contempt with which the writer thinks fit to speak of all things that were done before the coming in of the very last fashions in politics . What he thinks ...
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... equally absurd ; it is at least equally symptomatic of a shallow un- derstanding and an unamiable temper ; and , if it should ever become general , it will , we are satisfied , produce very pre- judicial effects . Its tendency is to ...
... equally absurd ; it is at least equally symptomatic of a shallow un- derstanding and an unamiable temper ; and , if it should ever become general , it will , we are satisfied , produce very pre- judicial effects . Its tendency is to ...
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... equally absurd kind have been set up against the jurisdic- tion of political philosophy . Vile abuses cluster thick round every glorious event , round every venerable name ; and this evil assuredly calls for vigorous measures of ...
... equally absurd kind have been set up against the jurisdic- tion of political philosophy . Vile abuses cluster thick round every glorious event , round every venerable name ; and this evil assuredly calls for vigorous measures of ...
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