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... knowledge of the present generation ; but still I am sensible that my record is far too diffuse . Feeling this at the very time of writing , I was yet unable to correct it ; so little self - control was I able to exercise under the ...
... knowledge of the present generation ; but still I am sensible that my record is far too diffuse . Feeling this at the very time of writing , I was yet unable to correct it ; so little self - control was I able to exercise under the ...
Side 30
... knowledge , or to his animal condition of * If mere names were allowed to dazzle the judgment , how mag- nificent to a gallant young Englishman of twenty seems at first the tiger - hunting of India , which yet ( when examined ...
... knowledge , or to his animal condition of * If mere names were allowed to dazzle the judgment , how mag- nificent to a gallant young Englishman of twenty seems at first the tiger - hunting of India , which yet ( when examined ...
Side 31
... knowledge . The library was dispersed through six or seven small rooms , lying between the drawing- room in one wing , and the dining - room in the opposite wing . This dispersion , however , already furnished the ground of a rude ...
... knowledge . The library was dispersed through six or seven small rooms , lying between the drawing- room in one wing , and the dining - room in the opposite wing . This dispersion , however , already furnished the ground of a rude ...
Side 33
... plus variée que la notre . This fact is a feature in our national pretensions that could ever have been regarded doubtfully merely through insufficient knowledge Dr. Johnson , indeed , made it the distinguishing merit VISIT TO LAXTON .
... plus variée que la notre . This fact is a feature in our national pretensions that could ever have been regarded doubtfully merely through insufficient knowledge Dr. Johnson , indeed , made it the distinguishing merit VISIT TO LAXTON .
Side 34
... knowledge . In- coherent and unsystematic was Dr. Johnson's infor- mation in most cases . Hence his extravagant mis- appraisement of Knolles , the Turkish historian , which is exposed so severely by Spittler , the Ger man , who , again ...
... knowledge . In- coherent and unsystematic was Dr. Johnson's infor- mation in most cases . Hence his extravagant mis- appraisement of Knolles , the Turkish historian , which is exposed so severely by Spittler , the Ger man , who , again ...
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