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... things which had happened to him in manhood , of his habits of body and mind , of his whims and prejudices , of his ideas . Like the good moralist he was , he took on the whole more interest in what happened within him than in the ...
... things which had happened to him in manhood , of his habits of body and mind , of his whims and prejudices , of his ideas . Like the good moralist he was , he took on the whole more interest in what happened within him than in the ...
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... things clearly reflected the humanism out of which the essay originally developed and which still survived in cultured circles to the end of the seventeenth century . - II . THE PERIODICAL ESSAY OF THE EIGHTEENTH Increased prominence ...
... things clearly reflected the humanism out of which the essay originally developed and which still survived in cultured circles to the end of the seventeenth century . - II . THE PERIODICAL ESSAY OF THE EIGHTEENTH Increased prominence ...
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... thing he had so ardently de- sired , was rapt with so sudden an excess of joy that he imme- diately fell into a fever ... things therein are incessantly moving , the earth , the rocks of Caucasus , and the pyramids of Egypt , both by the ...
... thing he had so ardently de- sired , was rapt with so sudden an excess of joy that he imme- diately fell into a fever ... things therein are incessantly moving , the earth , the rocks of Caucasus , and the pyramids of Egypt , both by the ...
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... things : but a sufficient man is sufficient through- out , even to ignorance itself ; here my book and I go hand in hand together . Elsewhere men may commend or censure the work , without reference to the workman ; here they cannot ...
... things : but a sufficient man is sufficient through- out , even to ignorance itself ; here my book and I go hand in hand together . Elsewhere men may commend or censure the work , without reference to the workman ; here they cannot ...
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... own house , but in his own country , says the experience of histories : ' tis the same in things of nought , and in this low example the image of a greater is to be seen . In my country of Gascony , they ΙΟ THE ENGLISH FAMILIAR ESSAY.
... own house , but in his own country , says the experience of histories : ' tis the same in things of nought , and in this low example the image of a greater is to be seen . In my country of Gascony , they ΙΟ THE ENGLISH FAMILIAR ESSAY.
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