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... nature . " Birkbeck Hill used to say that he had been brought up as \ a utilitarian ; yet there were other influences present in his childhood and youth which served to cultivate the imaginative and literary side of his nature . The old ...
... nature . " Birkbeck Hill used to say that he had been brought up as \ a utilitarian ; yet there were other influences present in his childhood and youth which served to cultivate the imaginative and literary side of his nature . The old ...
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... natural gaiety of his nature would reassert itself , while his wise sympathy was freely given to them in their hopes and fears . Soon after settling at Burghfield he began to take an interest in the public affairs of the neighbourhood ...
... natural gaiety of his nature would reassert itself , while his wise sympathy was freely given to them in their hopes and fears . Soon after settling at Burghfield he began to take an interest in the public affairs of the neighbourhood ...
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... natural desire of man to propagate 5 a wonder3 . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
... natural desire of man to propagate 5 a wonder3 . It is surely very difficult to tell any thing as it was heard , when ... Nature for literary politeness . But in the author's own honest relation , the marvel vanishes : he was , he says ...
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... nature should be published . ' Hurd's Cowley , i . 37 ; ante , COWLEY , I n . 6 5 In his Essay Of Solitude he writes : - Oh Solitude , first state of human- kind ! Which blest remain'd till man did find Ev'n his own helper's company ...
... nature should be published . ' Hurd's Cowley , i . 37 ; ante , COWLEY , I n . 6 5 In his Essay Of Solitude he writes : - Oh Solitude , first state of human- kind ! Which blest remain'd till man did find Ev'n his own helper's company ...
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... natural sources in the mind of man , paid their court to temporary pre- judices , has been at one time too much praised and too much neglected at another 2 . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has ...
... natural sources in the mind of man , paid their court to temporary pre- judices , has been at one time too much praised and too much neglected at another 2 . Wit , like all other things subject by their nature to the choice of man , has ...
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