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Physiological learning is of such rare emergence , that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears .
Physiological learning is of such rare emergence , that one man may know another half his life without being able to estimate his skill in hydrostaticks or astronomy ; but his moral and prudential character immediately appears .
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It is indeed learning , but learning out of place . When once he had engaged himself in disputation , thoughts flowed in on either side : he was now no longer at a loss ; he had always objections and solutions at command : verbaque ...
It is indeed learning , but learning out of place . When once he had engaged himself in disputation , thoughts flowed in on either side : he was now no longer at a loss ; he had always objections and solutions at command : verbaque ...
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To say that he has no beauties , would be unjust : a man like him , of great learning and great industry , could not but produce something valuable . When he pleases least , it can only be said that a good design was ill directed .
To say that he has no beauties , would be unjust : a man like him , of great learning and great industry , could not but produce something valuable . When he pleases least , it can only be said that a good design was ill directed .
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Introduction | 5 |
Authors Advertisement to the Third Edition | 13 |
Milton | 15 |
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| Title | Lives of the English Poets |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Editor | Robert Montagu |
| Publisher | Folio Society, 1965 |
| Length | 420 pages |
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