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" He was the least of an egotist that it was possible to be. He was nothing in himself, but he was all that others were, or that they could become. "
Russian Essays on Shakespeare and His Contemporaries - Page 97
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 2

England - 1818 - 764 pages
...other man, only that he was like all other men. It was not possible to be less of an egotist ; for he was nothing in himself, but he was all that others were, or that they could become. His mind reflected ages past, and present, and to come. With him there was no respect of persons; his genius...
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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...bias, or exclusive excellence more than another. He was just like any other man, but that he was ^ike all other men. He was the least of an egotist that...was all that others were, or that they could become. He not only had in himself the germs of every faculty and feeling, but he could follow them by anticipation,...
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Specimens of the Lyrical, Descriptive, and Narrative Poets of Great Britain ...

John Johnstone (of Edinburgh.) - English poetry - 1828 - 600 pages
...and feeling within itself, and had no one peculiar bias or exclusive excellence more than another. He was just like any other man, but that he was like...himself ; but he was all that others were, or that they would become. He not only had in himself the germs of every faculty and feeling, but he could follow...
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 38

1841 - 456 pages
...and feeling within itself, and had no one peculiar bias, or exclusive excellence more than another. He was just like any other man, but that he was like...was all that others were, or that they could become. He not only had in himself all the germs of faculty and feeling, but he could follow them by anticipation,...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 512 pages
...and feeling within itself, and had no one peculiar bias, or exclusive excellence more than another. He was just like any other man, but that he was like...was all that others were, or that they could become. He not only had in himself the germs of every faculty and feeling, but he could fol!ow them by anticipation,...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...and feeling within itself, and had no one peculiar bias, or exclusive excellence more than another. He was just like any other man, but that he was like...was all that others were, or that they could become. He not only had in himself the germs of every faculty and feeling, hut he could follow them by anticipation,...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1

Periodicals - 1845 - 732 pages
...simultaneously together, freely interchanging their functions and provinces. In the words of Hazlitt, " he was just like any other man, but that he was like all other men." His mind, as hath been said, was the very sphere of humanity; ubiquity and omniformity were its distinctive...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 1

Periodicals - 1845 - 688 pages
...simultaneously together, freely interchanging their functions and provinces, (n the words of Hazlitt, " he was just like any other man, but that he was like all other men." His mind, as hath been said, was the very sphere of humanity; ubiqviity and omniformity were its distinctive...
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Lectures on Shakespeare, Volume 1

Henry Norman Hudson - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 360 pages
...peculiarities ; its generic quality ; its power of communicating equally with all other minds ; so that " he was just like any other man, but that he was like all other men." Accordingly, wisdom, true wisdom, in the best and highest sense, seems to me the characteristic quality...
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Lectures on Shakespeare, Volume 1

Henry Norman Hudson - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 364 pages
...peculiarities; its generic quality ; its power of communicating equally with all other minds; so that " he was just like any other man, but that he was like all othei* men." Accordingly, wisdom, true wisdom, in the best and highest sense, seems to me the characteristic...
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