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Page ix
... , partly from a feeling of repugnance at being forced into an enterprise which he had not intended, but still more perhaps from a sense of inability, more real than he knew, which was beginning to make itself felt. He.
... , partly from a feeling of repugnance at being forced into an enterprise which he had not intended, but still more perhaps from a sense of inability, more real than he knew, which was beginning to make itself felt. He.
Page xi
... sense of incapacity to deal with them. By degrees and with much reluctance he admitted the necessity of some assistance. It was known to his family that he intended to make me his literary executor, and he now acceded to their asking me ...
... sense of incapacity to deal with them. By degrees and with much reluctance he admitted the necessity of some assistance. It was known to his family that he intended to make me his literary executor, and he now acceded to their asking me ...
Page 3
... sense. The intellect, yielded up to itself, cannot supersede this tyrannie necessity. The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds,—of fEsop, Aristotle, Alfred, Luther, Shakspeare, Cervantes, Franklin ...
... sense. The intellect, yielded up to itself, cannot supersede this tyrannie necessity. The restraining grace of common sense is the mark of all the valid minds,—of fEsop, Aristotle, Alfred, Luther, Shakspeare, Cervantes, Franklin ...
Page 5
... is grad— ually transferred from the forms to the lurking method.3 This hint, however conveyed, upsets our politics, trade, customs, marriages, nay, the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded. INTRODUCTORY 5.
... is grad— ually transferred from the forms to the lurking method.3 This hint, however conveyed, upsets our politics, trade, customs, marriages, nay, the common sense side of religion and literature, which are all founded. INTRODUCTORY 5.
Page 6
... sense uses.' Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against ...
... sense uses.' Suppose there were in the ocean certain strong currents which drove a ship, caught in them, with a force that no skill of sailing with the best wind, and no strength of oars, or sails, or steam, could make any head against ...
Contents
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ELOQUENCE | 118 |
RESOURCES | 137 |
THE COMIC | 172 |
PROGRESS OF CULTURE | 205 |
PERSIAN POETRY | 235 |
IMMORTALITY | 321 |
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