Table Talk: Or, Original Essays on Men and Manners, Volumen1H. Colburn, 1824 - 401 páginas |
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... matter of no moment to think whether I have been one or the other ? Do I delude myself , do I build upon a shadow or a dream , do I dress up in the gaudy garb of idleness and folly a pure fiction , with nothing answering to it in the ...
... matter of no moment to think whether I have been one or the other ? Do I delude myself , do I build upon a shadow or a dream , do I dress up in the gaudy garb of idleness and folly a pure fiction , with nothing answering to it in the ...
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... matter , whether we regard its pleasures or its pains . To draw a peevish conclusion to the contrary from our own superannuated de- sires or forgetful indifference is about as reason- able as to say , a man never was young because he is ...
... matter , whether we regard its pleasures or its pains . To draw a peevish conclusion to the contrary from our own superannuated de- sires or forgetful indifference is about as reason- able as to say , a man never was young because he is ...
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... matter , there could be no rule given for them nature does not follow the rule , but suggests it . Reason is the interpreter and critic of nature and genius , not their lawgiver and judge . He must be a poor creature indeed whose ...
... matter , there could be no rule given for them nature does not follow the rule , but suggests it . Reason is the interpreter and critic of nature and genius , not their lawgiver and judge . He must be a poor creature indeed whose ...
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... matter is reduced to a common - place invention . " This is sometimes the effect of what I mean to caution you against ; that is to say , an unfounded distrust of the imagination and feel- ing , in favour of narrow , partial , confined ...
... matter is reduced to a common - place invention . " This is sometimes the effect of what I mean to caution you against ; that is to say , an unfounded distrust of the imagination and feel- ing , in favour of narrow , partial , confined ...
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... all tell what was the matter with him . To the flitting , shadowy , half - dis- tinguished profile that had glided by his window was linked unconsciously and mysteriously , but inseparably , the 74 ON GENIUS AND COMMON SENSE .
... all tell what was the matter with him . To the flitting , shadowy , half - dis- tinguished profile that had glided by his window was linked unconsciously and mysteriously , but inseparably , the 74 ON GENIUS AND COMMON SENSE .
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