Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few WordsPorter & Coates, 1871 - 504 sider |
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Side x
... deserved it . In the article of rejection and abridgment , we must be severe for ourselves , if we wish for mercy from others ; since for one great genius who has written a little book , we have a thousand little geniuses , who have ...
... deserved it . In the article of rejection and abridgment , we must be severe for ourselves , if we wish for mercy from others ; since for one great genius who has written a little book , we have a thousand little geniuses , who have ...
Side 6
... it is true , I have given the subject all the attention I thought it deserved , but others may be more fortunate in their methods of investigation . 1 Bat that I may not appear singular in such conclu- 6 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF.
... it is true , I have given the subject all the attention I thought it deserved , but others may be more fortunate in their methods of investigation . 1 Bat that I may not appear singular in such conclu- 6 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF.
Side 9
... deserved the imputation at all . He was rather the subject of ever varying impulses , under the instigation of which , were they good or bad , he would instinctively proceed to act , without consideration and without restraint . He ...
... deserved the imputation at all . He was rather the subject of ever varying impulses , under the instigation of which , were they good or bad , he would instinctively proceed to act , without consideration and without restraint . He ...
Side 27
... deserves to have any weight or influence with posterity , who has shown himself superior to the particular and redominant error of his own times ; -who , like the peak of Teneriffe , has hailed the intellectual sun , before its beams ...
... deserves to have any weight or influence with posterity , who has shown himself superior to the particular and redominant error of his own times ; -who , like the peak of Teneriffe , has hailed the intellectual sun , before its beams ...
Side 27
... deserve contemporaneous applause , without obtaining it , than obtain , without deserving it ; if it follow them , it is well , but they will not deviate to follow it With inferior minds the reverse is observable ; so that they can com ...
... deserve contemporaneous applause , without obtaining it , than obtain , without deserving it ; if it follow them , it is well , but they will not deviate to follow it With inferior minds the reverse is observable ; so that they can com ...
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