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... received a finished edu- cation ; and we must therefore , if we would form a just estimate of his powers , make large deductions for these advantages . tions , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from ...
... received a finished edu- cation ; and we must therefore , if we would form a just estimate of his powers , make large deductions for these advantages . tions , like individuals , first perceive , and then abstract . They advance from ...
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... received , he arranged them more luminously , by wit . and expressed them more forcibly than any other writer . The real object of the drama is the exhibi tion of the human character . This , we con- ceive , is no arbitrary canon ...
... received , he arranged them more luminously , by wit . and expressed them more forcibly than any other writer . The real object of the drama is the exhibi tion of the human character . This , we con- ceive , is no arbitrary canon ...
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... received by political economists , was propounded almost at the same moment , by two writers unconnected with each other . Preceding speculators had long been blundering round about it ; and it could not possibly have been missed much ...
... received by political economists , was propounded almost at the same moment , by two writers unconnected with each other . Preceding speculators had long been blundering round about it ; and it could not possibly have been missed much ...
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... received him back . Every gination was extinct . Taste was depraved . year which he had passed among strangers Poetry , driven from palaces , colleges , and the had rendered him more unfit to rule his coun - atres , had found an asylum ...
... received him back . Every gination was extinct . Taste was depraved . year which he had passed among strangers Poetry , driven from palaces , colleges , and the had rendered him more unfit to rule his coun - atres , had found an asylum ...
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... received in connection with it , comes before us ; and as there is no im- mutable record of what has been admitted and of what has been denied , direct contradictions pass muster with little difficulty . Almost all the education of a ...
... received in connection with it , comes before us ; and as there is no im- mutable record of what has been admitted and of what has been denied , direct contradictions pass muster with little difficulty . Almost all the education of a ...
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