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Pagina ix
... never written . - The art of meditation excrcised at all hours and places . - Conti- nuity of attention the source of philosophical discoveries . - Still- ness of meditation the first state of existence in genius ... PAGE 298 CHAPTER ...
... never written . - The art of meditation excrcised at all hours and places . - Conti- nuity of attention the source of philosophical discoveries . - Still- ness of meditation the first state of existence in genius ... PAGE 298 CHAPTER ...
Pagina 4
... never discover this melancholy truth , till they have yielded to an impulse , and adopted a profession , too late in life to resist the one , or abandon the other . Whoever labours without hope , a painful state to which Authors are at ...
... never discover this melancholy truth , till they have yielded to an impulse , and adopted a profession , too late in life to resist the one , or abandon the other . Whoever labours without hope , a painful state to which Authors are at ...
Pagina 12
... never passed more weary summer , nor ever found himself so inca- pable of indulging the warmest emotions of his heart . On his return , in a letter , he gave this melancholy narrative of him- self : - " Between friends , I am now ...
... never passed more weary summer , nor ever found himself so inca- pable of indulging the warmest emotions of his heart . On his return , in a letter , he gave this melancholy narrative of him- self : - " Between friends , I am now ...
Pagina 15
... never develop its nature by wild analogies , nor discover it in any common - law right ; for our common law , composed of immemorial customs , could never have had in its contemplation an object which could not have existed in barbarous ...
... never develop its nature by wild analogies , nor discover it in any common - law right ; for our common law , composed of immemorial customs , could never have had in its contemplation an object which could not have existed in barbarous ...
Pagina 19
... never fastidiously modest , blushed at the title of his " Pierce Pennilesse , " which the publisher had flou- rished in the first edition , like " a tedious mountebank . " The booksellers forged great names to recommend their works ...
... never fastidiously modest , blushed at the title of his " Pierce Pennilesse , " which the publisher had flou- rished in the first edition , like " a tedious mountebank . " The booksellers forged great names to recommend their works ...
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