Critical, Historical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2Hurd and Houghton, 1875 |
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Page viii
... thought no more of them afterwards than the ostrich is said to do of her eggs after she has laid them . " In another letter , written about two years after- wards , when the bright lad was nearly fourteen , she says , 66 the quantity of ...
... thought no more of them afterwards than the ostrich is said to do of her eggs after she has laid them . " In another letter , written about two years after- wards , when the bright lad was nearly fourteen , she says , 66 the quantity of ...
Page x
... thought was thus early connected with imperiousness of will and petulant disrespect for other minds . Having no self - distrust , there was nothing to check the positiveness of his judgments . Where more cautious thinkers doubted he ...
... thought was thus early connected with imperiousness of will and petulant disrespect for other minds . Having no self - distrust , there was nothing to check the positiveness of his judgments . Where more cautious thinkers doubted he ...
Page xvii
... thought out and com- mitted to memory . Without writing a word , he could prepare an hour's speech , in his mind , carefully attend- ing even to the most minute felicities of expression , and then deliver it with a rapidity so great ...
... thought out and com- mitted to memory . Without writing a word , he could prepare an hour's speech , in his mind , carefully attend- ing even to the most minute felicities of expression , and then deliver it with a rapidity so great ...
Page xix
... thought to literature as he did before he became a member . To this period belong his articles on Sad- dler's Law of Population , Bunyan , Byron , Hampden , Lord Burleigh , Mirabeau , Horace Walpole , the elder Pitt , Croker's Edition ...
... thought to literature as he did before he became a member . To this period belong his articles on Sad- dler's Law of Population , Bunyan , Byron , Hampden , Lord Burleigh , Mirabeau , Horace Walpole , the elder Pitt , Croker's Edition ...
Page xxii
... thought he could have made it himself . " Ou ! it was a wise - like speech , an ' no that defeeshunt in airgument ; but , eh ! man " -with a pause of in- tense disappointment- " I'm thinkin ' I could ha ' said the haill o ' it mysel ...
... thought he could have made it himself . " Ou ! it was a wise - like speech , an ' no that defeeshunt in airgument ; but , eh ! man " -with a pause of in- tense disappointment- " I'm thinkin ' I could ha ' said the haill o ' it mysel ...
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