The Spirit of the Age, Or, Contemporary Portraits |
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not struck out any great leading principle or parent - truth , from which a number of others might be deduced ; nor has he enriched the common and established stock of intelligence with original observations , like pearls thrown into ...
not struck out any great leading principle or parent - truth , from which a number of others might be deduced ; nor has he enriched the common and established stock of intelligence with original observations , like pearls thrown into ...
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They are quite a different species , and speak a different language , and are sadly at a loss for a common interpreter between them . Perhaps the Ordinary of Newgate bids as fair for this office as any one .
They are quite a different species , and speak a different language , and are sadly at a loss for a common interpreter between them . Perhaps the Ordinary of Newgate bids as fair for this office as any one .
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Our author's page presents a very nicely dove - tailed mosaic pavement of legal common - places . We slip and slide over its even surface without being arrested any where . Or his view of the human mind resembles a map , rather than a ...
Our author's page presents a very nicely dove - tailed mosaic pavement of legal common - places . We slip and slide over its even surface without being arrested any where . Or his view of the human mind resembles a map , rather than a ...
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Not so , in the name of manhood and of common sense ! Let us pause here a little . Mr. Godwin indulged in extreme opinions , and carried with him all the most sanguine and fearless understandings of the time . What then ?
Not so , in the name of manhood and of common sense ! Let us pause here a little . Mr. Godwin indulged in extreme opinions , and carried with him all the most sanguine and fearless understandings of the time . What then ?
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said that this scheme is chimerical and impracticable on ordinary occasions , and to the generality of mankind , well and good ; but those who accuse the author of having trampled on the common feelings and prejudices of mankind in ...
said that this scheme is chimerical and impracticable on ordinary occasions , and to the generality of mankind , well and good ; but those who accuse the author of having trampled on the common feelings and prejudices of mankind in ...
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