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... doubt , for a character without an alloy of self is a mere monster . How many inferior qualities go to make up a mind like that of Joseph - how much there may have been of vanity , and desire to astonish , and love of power -any one may ...
... doubt , for a character without an alloy of self is a mere monster . How many inferior qualities go to make up a mind like that of Joseph - how much there may have been of vanity , and desire to astonish , and love of power -any one may ...
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... doubt their effect in urging a high - minded , but self - willed , youth in the opposite direction . For there was no tincture of irreligion in Joseph's religious liberalism . Averse from what he considered idle speculation on all ...
... doubt their effect in urging a high - minded , but self - willed , youth in the opposite direction . For there was no tincture of irreligion in Joseph's religious liberalism . Averse from what he considered idle speculation on all ...
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... doubt , was owing his passion for locomotion , indulged , during the life of his mother , and even afterwards , to such an excess that he might almost have rivalled Lord Peter- borough's boast of personal acquaintance with all the ...
... doubt , was owing his passion for locomotion , indulged , during the life of his mother , and even afterwards , to such an excess that he might almost have rivalled Lord Peter- borough's boast of personal acquaintance with all the ...
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... doubt , the grim satisfaction with which he gave his subjects , by way of corollary to his maxims , the spectacle of a count who had forged bank notes sweeping the street in chains , a grey - haired colonel of the guards who had ...
... doubt , the grim satisfaction with which he gave his subjects , by way of corollary to his maxims , the spectacle of a count who had forged bank notes sweeping the street in chains , a grey - haired colonel of the guards who had ...
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... doubt , imperfections even in this grand and comprehensive scheme , and it was oddly inter- mingled with some freaks of absolutism . Certain simple sectaries , called ' Deists , ' but who seem rather to have aimed at a kind of primitive ...
... doubt , imperfections even in this grand and comprehensive scheme , and it was oddly inter- mingled with some freaks of absolutism . Certain simple sectaries , called ' Deists , ' but who seem rather to have aimed at a kind of primitive ...
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Page 100 - The pamphlet proves what I have always maintained, that any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
Page 188 - And you, my midnight darlings, my Folios ! must I part with the intense delight of having you (huge armfuls) in my embraces ? Must knowledge come to me, if it come at all, by some awkward experiment of intuition, and no longer by this familiar process of reading ? Shall I enjoy friendships there wanting the smiling indications which point me to them here, — the recognisable face the "sweet assurance of a look?