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Pagina vii
... pursuits of literature with levity ...... CHAPTER II . Of the Adversaries of Literary Men among themselves . - Matter - of- fact Men , and Men of Wit . - The Political Economists . - Of those CHAPTER III . 209 Of artists , in the ...
... pursuits of literature with levity ...... CHAPTER II . Of the Adversaries of Literary Men among themselves . - Matter - of- fact Men , and Men of Wit . - The Political Economists . - Of those CHAPTER III . 209 Of artists , in the ...
Pagina viii
... pursuits ... CHAPTER X. Literary solitude . Its necessity . -Its pleasures . - Of visitors by profession . cies .... 275 284 - Its inconvenien- 293 CHAPTER XI . The meditations of genius . - A work on the art of meditation not yet ...
... pursuits ... CHAPTER X. Literary solitude . Its necessity . -Its pleasures . - Of visitors by profession . cies .... 275 284 - Its inconvenien- 293 CHAPTER XI . The meditations of genius . - A work on the art of meditation not yet ...
Pagina 1
... pursuits of Literature possess above every other occupation , that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them , merits the pre - eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions . " - HUME . 1 THE ...
... pursuits of Literature possess above every other occupation , that even he who attains but a mediocrity in them , merits the pre - eminence above those that excel the most in the common and vulgar professions . " - HUME . 1 THE ...
Pagina 41
... pursuit which my spirits had even now prevented me from being weaned from , I mean of virtu . It is like a mortal distemper ... pursuits have always been light , trifling , and tended to nothing but my casual amusement . I will not say ...
... pursuit which my spirits had even now prevented me from being weaned from , I mean of virtu . It is like a mortal distemper ... pursuits have always been light , trifling , and tended to nothing but my casual amusement . I will not say ...
Pagina 74
... pursuits to which only we are indebted for them ? Strutt , living in the greatest obscurity , and voluntarily sacrificing all the or- dinary views of life , and the trade of his burin , solely attached to national antiquities , and ...
... pursuits to which only we are indebted for them ? Strutt , living in the greatest obscurity , and voluntarily sacrificing all the or- dinary views of life , and the trade of his burin , solely attached to national antiquities , and ...
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