Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... character was disfigured by odious vices , and whose eccentricities were such as had never before been seen out of a madhouse . He was exact and diligent in the transacting of business ; and he was the first who formed the design of ...
... character was disfigured by odious vices , and whose eccentricities were such as had never before been seen out of a madhouse . He was exact and diligent in the transacting of business ; and he was the first who formed the design of ...
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... character of moral and intellectual disease . His parsimony degenerated into sordid avarice . His taste for military pomp and order became a mania , like that of a Dutch burgo- master for tulips , or that of a member of the Rox- burghe ...
... character of moral and intellectual disease . His parsimony degenerated into sordid avarice . His taste for military pomp and order became a mania , like that of a Dutch burgo- master for tulips , or that of a member of the Rox- burghe ...
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... character , it is difficult to say whether they are to be ascribed to nature , or to the strange training which he underwent . The history of his boyhood is painfully interesting . Oliver Twist in the parish work- house , Smike at ...
... character , it is difficult to say whether they are to be ascribed to nature , or to the strange training which he underwent . The history of his boyhood is painfully interesting . Oliver Twist in the parish work- house , Smike at ...
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... character was little understood . That he had good abilities , indeed , no person who had talked with him , or corresponded with him , could doubt . But the easy Epicurean life which he had led , his love of good cookery and good wine ...
... character was little understood . That he had good abilities , indeed , no person who had talked with him , or corresponded with him , could doubt . But the easy Epicurean life which he had led , his love of good cookery and good wine ...
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... character was the same in both . To both were common the love of order , the love of business , the military taste , the parsimony , the imperious spirit , the temper irritable even to ferocity , the pleasure in the pain and humiliation ...
... character was the same in both . To both were common the love of order , the love of business , the military taste , the parsimony , the imperious spirit , the temper irritable even to ferocity , the pleasure in the pain and humiliation ...
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