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Such is the use which has been made of human learning . The labourers in this vineyard seem as if it was their object to confound all common sense , and the distinctions of good and evil , by means of traditional maxims and preconceived ...
Such is the use which has been made of human learning . The labourers in this vineyard seem as if it was their object to confound all common sense , and the distinctions of good and evil , by means of traditional maxims and preconceived ...
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... makes nothing either way : it is the downright love of pain and mischief for the interest it excites , and the scope it gives to an abandoned will , that is the root of all the evil , and the original sin of human nature .
... makes nothing either way : it is the downright love of pain and mischief for the interest it excites , and the scope it gives to an abandoned will , that is the root of all the evil , and the original sin of human nature .
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Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another species . Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any objects of sense . He saw in man a talking , absurd , obstinate ...
Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another species . Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any objects of sense . He saw in man a talking , absurd , obstinate ...
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On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 |
| Auteur | William Hazlitt |
| Redacteur | Geoffrey Keynes |
| Uitgever | Random House, 1930 |
| Oorspronkelijk uit | Indiana University |
| Gedigitaliseerd | 30 jan 2009 |
| Lengte | 807 pagina's |
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