Cyclopędia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of British and American Authors, with Specimens of Their Writings, Volume 7Robert Chambers Amer. Book Exchange, 1879 - English literature |
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... mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself . Stupidity often saves a man from going mad . Any decent ... minds . There are men of esprit who are excessively exhausting to some people . They are the talkers that have what may be ...
... mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself . Stupidity often saves a man from going mad . Any decent ... minds . There are men of esprit who are excessively exhausting to some people . They are the talkers that have what may be ...
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... mind - and how every event , adverse or fortunate , tends to strengthen and expand a high mind , and to break the springs of a selfish or even merely weak and self - indulgent nature . ' * In carrying out this moral purpose , Mrs. Craik ...
... mind - and how every event , adverse or fortunate , tends to strengthen and expand a high mind , and to break the springs of a selfish or even merely weak and self - indulgent nature . ' * In carrying out this moral purpose , Mrs. Craik ...
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... mind like Scipio's , working its way under the peculiar influences of his time and country , cannot but move irregularly - it cannot but be full of contradictions . Two hundred years later , the mind of the dictator , Cęsar , acquiesced ...
... mind like Scipio's , working its way under the peculiar influences of his time and country , cannot but move irregularly - it cannot but be full of contradictions . Two hundred years later , the mind of the dictator , Cęsar , acquiesced ...
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