The Spirit of the Age: Or Contemporary Portraits |
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He has been heard to say ( without any appearance of pride or affectation ) that “
he should like to live the remaining years of his life , a year at a time at the end of
the next six or eight centuries , to see the effect which his writings would by that ...
He has been heard to say ( without any appearance of pride or affectation ) that “
he should like to live the remaining years of his life , a year at a time at the end of
the next six or eight centuries , to see the effect which his writings would by that ...
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Two persons agree to live together in Chambers on principles of pure equality
and mutual assistance , but when it comes to the push , one of them finds that the
other always insists on his fetching water from the pump in Hare - court , and ...
Two persons agree to live together in Chambers on principles of pure equality
and mutual assistance , but when it comes to the push , one of them finds that the
other always insists on his fetching water from the pump in Hare - court , and ...
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... the Saxon peasantry were treated by their gay and gallant tyrants as a herd of
loathsome swine - but for our own parts we beg to be excused ; we had rather
live in the same age with the author of Waverley and Blackwood ' s Magazine .
... the Saxon peasantry were treated by their gay and gallant tyrants as a herd of
loathsome swine - but for our own parts we beg to be excused ; we had rather
live in the same age with the author of Waverley and Blackwood ' s Magazine .
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We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences , that we live in retrospect , and
doat on past atchievements . The accumulation of knowledge has been so great ,
that we are lost in wonder at the height it has reached , instead of attempting to ...
We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences , that we live in retrospect , and
doat on past atchievements . The accumulation of knowledge has been so great ,
that we are lost in wonder at the height it has reached , instead of attempting to ...
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With an understanding fertile , subtle , expansive , “ quick , forgetive ,
apprehensive , ” beyond all living precedent , few traces of it will perhaps remain .
He lends himself to all impressions alike ; he gives up his mind and liberty of
thought to ...
With an understanding fertile , subtle , expansive , “ quick , forgetive ,
apprehensive , ” beyond all living precedent , few traces of it will perhaps remain .
He lends himself to all impressions alike ; he gives up his mind and liberty of
thought to ...
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