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Page 401
... less dependent upon ac- tention it takes to receive and understand each quaintance with its laws , than upon practice and sentence , the less time and attention can be given natural aptitude . A clear head , a quick imagina- to the ...
... less dependent upon ac- tention it takes to receive and understand each quaintance with its laws , than upon practice and sentence , the less time and attention can be given natural aptitude . A clear head , a quick imagina- to the ...
Page 409
... less interesting to the more inter- esting ; and why not only the composition as a whole , but each of its successive portions , should tend towards a climax . At the same time , it forbids long continuity of the same species of thought ...
... less interesting to the more inter- esting ; and why not only the composition as a whole , but each of its successive portions , should tend towards a climax . At the same time , it forbids long continuity of the same species of thought ...
Page 552
... less likely to apply itself , from the absence of a sharp necessity . A few hundred chests of opium yield , without any pains , more than would the profit of some arduous scheme , pursued for the improvement of the country . But it must ...
... less likely to apply itself , from the absence of a sharp necessity . A few hundred chests of opium yield , without any pains , more than would the profit of some arduous scheme , pursued for the improvement of the country . But it must ...
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