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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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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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It glances a mortifying reflection on the shortness of human life, and the vanity of human pleasures. Something reminds us, that " all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." (ELOQUENCE OF THE BRITISH SENATE, ...
It glances a mortifying reflection on the shortness of human life, and the vanity of human pleasures. Something reminds us, that " all the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." (ELOQUENCE OF THE BRITISH SENATE, ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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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