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NO one ever changes his character from the time he is two years old ; nay , I might say , from the time he is two hours old . We may , with instruction and opportunity , mend our manners , or else alter for the worse , - " as the flesh ...
NO one ever changes his character from the time he is two years old ; nay , I might say , from the time he is two hours old . We may , with instruction and opportunity , mend our manners , or else alter for the worse , - " as the flesh ...
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They see character only in the bust , and have not room ( for the crowd ) to study it as a whole length , that is , as it exists in reality . But those who trace things to their source , and proceed from individuals to generals ...
They see character only in the bust , and have not room ( for the crowd ) to study it as a whole length , that is , as it exists in reality . But those who trace things to their source , and proceed from individuals to generals ...
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Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy , an we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards . Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character , any more than professed enemies .
Friendships are frequently taken up on some sudden sympathy , an we see only as much as we please of one another's characters afterwards . Intimate friends are not fair witnesses to character , any more than professed enemies .
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On the Love of the Country | 3 |
On the Ignorance of the Learned | 13 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 Essays, William Hazlitt Nonesuch library The centenary edition of Hazlitt's Selected essays |
| Auteur | William Hazlitt |
| Redacteur | Geoffrey Keynes |
| Editie | 2, herdruk |
| Uitgever | Nonesuch Press, 1948 |
| Lengte | 807 pagina's |
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