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... superiority of his own principles , he will deduce from 1 An expression used to me by a learned Doctor of Oxford . them an endless series of judgments that can only irritate 4 [ ESSAY HUMAN INTERCOURSE . COMPANIONSHIP IN MARRIAGE.
... superiority of his own principles , he will deduce from 1 An expression used to me by a learned Doctor of Oxford . them an endless series of judgments that can only irritate 4 [ ESSAY HUMAN INTERCOURSE . COMPANIONSHIP IN MARRIAGE.
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... expressing its own inmost self more clearly . We have the true Shelley , the born Tennyson , far more perfectly than we should ever have possessed them if their own minds had not been opened by the action of other minds . Culture is ...
... expressing its own inmost self more clearly . We have the true Shelley , the born Tennyson , far more perfectly than we should ever have possessed them if their own minds had not been opened by the action of other minds . Culture is ...
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... expression ; but what strikes one as particu- larly admirable in London is that in the present day ( it has not always been so ) men of the most opposite opinions and the most various tastes can profess their opinions and indulge their ...
... expression ; but what strikes one as particu- larly admirable in London is that in the present day ( it has not always been so ) men of the most opposite opinions and the most various tastes can profess their opinions and indulge their ...
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... in ugly or even monotonous places I have felt society to be as necessary as it was welcome . Byron's expression- " I made me friends of mountains , " and Wordsworth's- " Nature never did betray The heart that 26 [ ESSAY HUMAN INTERCOURSE .
... in ugly or even monotonous places I have felt society to be as necessary as it was welcome . Byron's expression- " I made me friends of mountains , " and Wordsworth's- " Nature never did betray The heart that 26 [ ESSAY HUMAN INTERCOURSE .
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... expressing more than we feel , have generally rather a tendency to be reserved upon the subject , as we seldom expect sympathy . Many of us would rather live in solitude . and on small means at Como than on a great income in Manchester ...
... expressing more than we feel , have generally rather a tendency to be reserved upon the subject , as we seldom expect sympathy . Many of us would rather live in solitude . and on small means at Como than on a great income in Manchester ...
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