Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Random House, 1930 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 202
... supposed incapacity of the people against a representative Government , comes with the worst grace in the world from the patrons and admirers of hereditary government . Surely , if government were a thing requiring the utmost stretch of ...
... supposed incapacity of the people against a representative Government , comes with the worst grace in the world from the patrons and admirers of hereditary government . Surely , if government were a thing requiring the utmost stretch of ...
Pagina 281
... supposed , where some sweet oblivious antidote " has been applied to the mind , and it is lulled to temporary forgetfulness of its immediate cause of sorrow , does it therefore cease to gnaw the heart by stealth ; are no traces of it ...
... supposed , where some sweet oblivious antidote " has been applied to the mind , and it is lulled to temporary forgetfulness of its immediate cause of sorrow , does it therefore cease to gnaw the heart by stealth ; are no traces of it ...
Pagina 577
... supposed , that his name and fame compose all that is worth a moment's consideration in the universe . This is the great secret of his writings - a perfect indif- ference to self . Whether it is the same in his politics , I cannot say ...
... supposed , that his name and fame compose all that is worth a moment's consideration in the universe . This is the great secret of his writings - a perfect indif- ference to self . Whether it is the same in his politics , I cannot say ...
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On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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