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Sir James is by education and habit , and we were going to add , by the original
turn of his mind , a college - man ; and perhaps he would have passed his time
most happily and respectably , had he devoted himself entirely to that kind of life .
Sir James is by education and habit , and we were going to add , by the original
turn of his mind , a college - man ; and perhaps he would have passed his time
most happily and respectably , had he devoted himself entirely to that kind of life .
Сторінка 178
He has no steady principles , no strong passions , nothing original , masculine ,
or striking in thought or expression . There is a feeble , diffuse , showy , Asiatic
redundancy in all his speeches — something vapid , something second - hand in
...
He has no steady principles , no strong passions , nothing original , masculine ,
or striking in thought or expression . There is a feeble , diffuse , showy , Asiatic
redundancy in all his speeches — something vapid , something second - hand in
...
Сторінка 203
... imposing on the public by a flowery style ; and when the latter ventured to refer
to a work of his , called An Essay on the Principles of Human Action , which has
not a single ornament in it , as a specimen of his original studies and 203 MR .
... imposing on the public by a flowery style ; and when the latter ventured to refer
to a work of his , called An Essay on the Principles of Human Action , which has
not a single ornament in it , as a specimen of his original studies and 203 MR .
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