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... side the water did not very long ago . As to his style it will soon improve - thanks to another result of his education without which those mentioned would be very imperfect - an elegant and refined taste which arrives late at maturity ...
... side the water did not very long ago . As to his style it will soon improve - thanks to another result of his education without which those mentioned would be very imperfect - an elegant and refined taste which arrives late at maturity ...
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... side of torture to hear , and when , as is usually the case , imperfectly understood by the attempter of it , is worse than a dozen donkeys . Once a Trinity man set up a private organ , and used to perform the Morning Hymn before chapel ...
... side of torture to hear , and when , as is usually the case , imperfectly understood by the attempter of it , is worse than a dozen donkeys . Once a Trinity man set up a private organ , and used to perform the Morning Hymn before chapel ...
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... side to make the attack , as we are in possession . be as There are one or two moral objections which it may well to begin with disposing of . First , it is said that the ancient authors are corrupting and unfit for young men to study ...
... side to make the attack , as we are in possession . be as There are one or two moral objections which it may well to begin with disposing of . First , it is said that the ancient authors are corrupting and unfit for young men to study ...
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... side . Against the name of Mitford may be put those of Thirlwall , Arnold , and Grote , the first two independent Whigs , the last a Radical . If the great Athe- nian satirist found a Tory Commentator in Mitchell , he has found a ...
... side . Against the name of Mitford may be put those of Thirlwall , Arnold , and Grote , the first two independent Whigs , the last a Radical . If the great Athe- nian satirist found a Tory Commentator in Mitchell , he has found a ...
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... side in politics - every man has a tendency to become absorbed in his particular pursuit , and the cleverer and more ambitious the man , the stronger this tendency usually is . He becomes hampered by the formulas of his profession . He ...
... side in politics - every man has a tendency to become absorbed in his particular pursuit , and the cleverer and more ambitious the man , the stronger this tendency usually is . He becomes hampered by the formulas of his profession . He ...
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