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In a private room , a satirist , a sophist may provoke admiration by expressing his
contempt for each of his adversaries in turn , and by setting their opinion at
defiance ; but when men are congregated together on a great public question
and for ...
In a private room , a satirist , a sophist may provoke admiration by expressing his
contempt for each of his adversaries in turn , and by setting their opinion at
defiance ; but when men are congregated together on a great public question
and for ...
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Or if a composer of sacred Dramas on classic models , or a translator of an old
Latin author ( that will hardly bear translation ) , or a vamper - up of vapid cantos
and Odes set to music , were to turn pander to prescription and palliater of every
...
Or if a composer of sacred Dramas on classic models , or a translator of an old
Latin author ( that will hardly bear translation ) , or a vamper - up of vapid cantos
and Odes set to music , were to turn pander to prescription and palliater of every
...
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If any one turns upon him ( which few people like to do ) , he immediately turns
tail . Like an overgrown school - boy , he is so used to have it all his own way ,
that he cannot submit to any thing like competition or a struggle for the mastery :
he ...
If any one turns upon him ( which few people like to do ) , he immediately turns
tail . Like an overgrown school - boy , he is so used to have it all his own way ,
that he cannot submit to any thing like competition or a struggle for the mastery :
he ...
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