The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1Henry Colburn, 1826 - 472 pages |
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Page 36
... look of sagacity to all sorts of exploded pre- judices and absurdity . It is a pity that we cannot let well done alone , and that after labour- ing for centuries to remove ignorance , we set our faces with the most wilful officiousness ...
... look of sagacity to all sorts of exploded pre- judices and absurdity . It is a pity that we cannot let well done alone , and that after labour- ing for centuries to remove ignorance , we set our faces with the most wilful officiousness ...
Page 52
... look on her directly : " - in courts , in camps , in town and country , he is a cypher or a butt : he is good for nothing but a laughing - stock or a scare - crow . You can scarcely get a word out of him for love or money . He knows ...
... look on her directly : " - in courts , in camps , in town and country , he is a cypher or a butt : he is good for nothing but a laughing - stock or a scare - crow . You can scarcely get a word out of him for love or money . He knows ...
Page 62
... look farther into a millstone than any body else . He would have others see with his eyes , and take their opinions ... looks upon what he nick- names a man of genius , but as the breath of his nostrils , and the clay in the potter's ...
... look farther into a millstone than any body else . He would have others see with his eyes , and take their opinions ... looks upon what he nick- names a man of genius , but as the breath of his nostrils , and the clay in the potter's ...
Page 63
... look old . This sort of neighbourly gossip will not go down after the high - raised tone of literary conversation . The last may be very absurd , very unsatisfactory , and full of turbu- lence and heart - burnings ; but it has a zest in ...
... look old . This sort of neighbourly gossip will not go down after the high - raised tone of literary conversation . The last may be very absurd , very unsatisfactory , and full of turbu- lence and heart - burnings ; but it has a zest in ...
Page 70
... look the question fairly in the face , so that you cannot avail yourself even of your real ad- vantages , insist most on what you feel to be the ין weakest points of your argument , and get more and 70 ON THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS .
... look the question fairly in the face , so that you cannot avail yourself even of your real ad- vantages , insist most on what you feel to be the ין weakest points of your argument , and get more and 70 ON THE CONVERSATION OF AUTHORS .
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