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To read omnivorously and without discernment gives one mental indigestion . To choose poor , frivolous material impoverishes thought . To read too little starves the soul . Hence in the sphere of letters to discriminate and to select is ...
To read omnivorously and without discernment gives one mental indigestion . To choose poor , frivolous material impoverishes thought . To read too little starves the soul . Hence in the sphere of letters to discriminate and to select is ...
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Upon inquiry , I found my learned friend had dined that day with Mr. Swan , the famous punster ; and desiring him to give me some account of Mr. Swan's conversation , he told me that he generally talked in the Paranomasia , that he ...
Upon inquiry , I found my learned friend had dined that day with Mr. Swan , the famous punster ; and desiring him to give me some account of Mr. Swan's conversation , he told me that he generally talked in the Paranomasia , that he ...
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit , and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty . It shows virtue in the fairest light , takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice ...
Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit , and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty . It shows virtue in the fairest light , takes off in some measure from the deformity of vice ...
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Xenophon , in the life of his imaginary prince , whom he describes as a pattern for real ones , is always celebrating the philanthropy or good nature of his hero , which he tells us he brought into the world with him , and gives many ...
Xenophon , in the life of his imaginary prince , whom he describes as a pattern for real ones , is always celebrating the philanthropy or good nature of his hero , which he tells us he brought into the world with him , and gives many ...
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The ill - natured man , though but of equal parts , gives himself a larger field to expatiate in ; he exposes those failings in human nature which the other would cast a veil over , laughs at vices which the other either excuses or ...
The ill - natured man , though but of equal parts , gives himself a larger field to expatiate in ; he exposes those failings in human nature which the other would cast a veil over , laughs at vices which the other either excuses or ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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