The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits. [By W. Hazlitt.], Том 1Colburn, 1825 |
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... habit of attending to the exact import of every word and clause in a sentence . Mr. Tooke had the mind of a lawyer ; but it was applied to a vast variety of topics and general trains of speculation . Mr. Horne Tooke was in private ...
... habit of attending to the exact import of every word and clause in a sentence . Mr. Tooke had the mind of a lawyer ; but it was applied to a vast variety of topics and general trains of speculation . Mr. Horne Tooke was in private ...
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... habit or sentiment , or the disguises of doting pedantry , naked in its cradle , and in its primitive state . Our author tells us that he found his discovery on Grammar among a num- ber of papers on other subjects , which he had thrown ...
... habit or sentiment , or the disguises of doting pedantry , naked in its cradle , and in its primitive state . Our author tells us that he found his discovery on Grammar among a num- ber of papers on other subjects , which he had thrown ...
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... habit of satisfying his own mind as to the precise sense in which he himself made use of words . Mr. Tooke , though he had no objection to puzzle others , was mightily averse to being puzzled or mystified himself . All was , to his ...
... habit of satisfying his own mind as to the precise sense in which he himself made use of words . Mr. Tooke , though he had no objection to puzzle others , was mightily averse to being puzzled or mystified himself . All was , to his ...
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... habit of tantalizing his guests on a Sunday afternoon with sundry abstruse speculations , and putting them off to the following week for a satisfaction of their doubts ; but why should he treat posterity in the same scurvy manner , or ...
... habit of tantalizing his guests on a Sunday afternoon with sundry abstruse speculations , and putting them off to the following week for a satisfaction of their doubts ; but why should he treat posterity in the same scurvy manner , or ...
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... habit or of tradition . He is a mere narra- tive and descriptive poet , garrulous of the old time . The definition of his poetry is a pleasing superficiality . Not so of his NOVELS AND ROMANCES . There we turn over a new leaf - another ...
... habit or of tradition . He is a mere narra- tive and descriptive poet , garrulous of the old time . The definition of his poetry is a pleasing superficiality . Not so of his NOVELS AND ROMANCES . There we turn over a new leaf - another ...
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