Selected Essays of William Hazlitt 1778 to 1830Read Books Ltd, 18 apr 2013 - 830 pagina's Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. |
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... man was never to have been born, and the next best to have died the moment after he came into existence.” The common argument, however, which is made use of to prove the value of life, from the strong desire which almost every one feels ...
... man was never to have been born, and the next best to have died the moment after he came into existence.” The common argument, however, which is made use of to prove the value of life, from the strong desire which almost every one feels ...
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... man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation, that is of the least practical utility, and least liable to be brought to the test of experience, and that, having been handed down through the ...
... man who knows the most of what is farthest removed from common life and actual observation, that is of the least practical utility, and least liable to be brought to the test of experience, and that, having been handed down through the ...
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Geoffrey Keynes. feels the truth of the lines— “The man whose eye is ever on himself, Doth look on one, the least of nature's works; One who might move the wise man to that scorn Which wisdom holds unlawful ever.” He looks out of himself ...
Geoffrey Keynes. feels the truth of the lines— “The man whose eye is ever on himself, Doth look on one, the least of nature's works; One who might move the wise man to that scorn Which wisdom holds unlawful ever.” He looks out of himself ...
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... man who did not derive more pain than pleasure from his vanity, that man, says Rousseau, was no other than a fool. A country gentleman near Taunton spent his whole life in making some hundreds of wretched copies of secondrate pictures ...
... man who did not derive more pain than pleasure from his vanity, that man, says Rousseau, was no other than a fool. A country gentleman near Taunton spent his whole life in making some hundreds of wretched copies of secondrate pictures ...
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... man fall in love, for from that moment he is “the baby of a girl.” I like very well to repeat such lines as these in the play of Mirandola— “With what a waving air she goes Along the corridor! How like a fawn! Yet statelier. Hark! No ...
... man fall in love, for from that moment he is “the baby of a girl.” I like very well to repeat such lines as these in the play of Mirandola— “With what a waving air she goes Along the corridor! How like a fawn! Yet statelier. Hark! No ...
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