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Mr . Bentham is very much among philosophers what La Fontaine was among
poets : in general habits and in all but his professional pursuits , he is a mere
child . He has lived for the last forty years in a house in Westminster , overlooking
the ...
Mr . Bentham is very much among philosophers what La Fontaine was among
poets : in general habits and in all but his professional pursuits , he is a mere
child . He has lived for the last forty years in a house in Westminster , overlooking
the ...
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... want of breath and with lack - lustre eye to point out to the stranger a stone in
the wall at the end of his garden ( overarched by two beautiful cotton - trees )
Inscribed to the Prince of Poets , which marks the house where Milton formerly
lived .
... want of breath and with lack - lustre eye to point out to the stranger a stone in
the wall at the end of his garden ( overarched by two beautiful cotton - trees )
Inscribed to the Prince of Poets , which marks the house where Milton formerly
lived .
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Again , what would become of the Posthæc meminisse juvabit of the poet , if a
principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our
nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to
...
Again , what would become of the Posthæc meminisse juvabit of the poet , if a
principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our
nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to
...
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Again , what would become of the Posthæc meminisse juvabit of the poet , if a
principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our
nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to
...
Again , what would become of the Posthæc meminisse juvabit of the poet , if a
principle of fluctuation and reaction is not inherent in the very constitution of our
nature , or if all moral truth is a mere literal truism ? We are not , then , so much to
...
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He has no great fondness for poetry , and can hardly extract a moral out of
Shakespear . His house is warmed and lighted by steam . He is one of those who
prefer the artificial to the natural in most things , and think the mind of man
omnipotent ...
He has no great fondness for poetry , and can hardly extract a moral out of
Shakespear . His house is warmed and lighted by steam . He is one of those who
prefer the artificial to the natural in most things , and think the mind of man
omnipotent ...
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