Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 - 330 pages |
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Page 24
... feeling even about scientific treatises ; though we know that the sciences are always in a state of progression , and that the alterations made by a modern editor in an old book on any branch of natural or political philosophy are ...
... feeling even about scientific treatises ; though we know that the sciences are always in a state of progression , and that the alterations made by a modern editor in an old book on any branch of natural or political philosophy are ...
Page 29
... feelings of others or when he was exposing himself to derision ; and because he was all this , he has , in an important department of literature , immeasurably surpassed such writers as Tacitus , Clarendon , Alfieri , and his own idol ...
... feelings of others or when he was exposing himself to derision ; and because he was all this , he has , in an important department of literature , immeasurably surpassed such writers as Tacitus , Clarendon , Alfieri , and his own idol ...
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... feeling was natural and reason- able . Sir Alexander saw that in proportion to the celebrity of the work , was the ... feelings or the honour of others might be concerned . No man , surely , ever published such stories respecting persons ...
... feeling was natural and reason- able . Sir Alexander saw that in proportion to the celebrity of the work , was the ... feelings or the honour of others might be concerned . No man , surely , ever published such stories respecting persons ...
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... feels for a stationary abode , and for the restraints and securities of civilised communities . They were as untameable , as much wedded to their desolate freedom , as the wild ass . They could no more be broken in to the offices of ...
... feels for a stationary abode , and for the restraints and securities of civilised communities . They were as untameable , as much wedded to their desolate freedom , as the wild ass . They could no more be broken in to the offices of ...
Page 43
... feelings of others in the ordinary intercourse of society . He could not understand how a sarcasm or a reprimand could make any man really unhappy . ' My dear doctor , ' said he to Goldsmith , what harm does it do to a man to call him ...
... feelings of others in the ordinary intercourse of society . He could not understand how a sarcasm or a reprimand could make any man really unhappy . ' My dear doctor , ' said he to Goldsmith , what harm does it do to a man to call him ...
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