Specimens of the Table TalkJ. Grant, 1905 - 351 страници |
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... never - break through the spell of personality ; —where Anecdote reigns everlastingly paramount and exclusive , and the mildest attempt to generalise the Babel of facts , and to control temporary and individual phenomena by the ...
... never - break through the spell of personality ; —where Anecdote reigns everlastingly paramount and exclusive , and the mildest attempt to generalise the Babel of facts , and to control temporary and individual phenomena by the ...
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... that whatever difficulties he might feel , with pen in hand , in the expression of his meaning , he never found the smallest hitch or impediment in PREFACE . XV the utterance of his most subtle reasonings Xiv PREFACE .
... that whatever difficulties he might feel , with pen in hand , in the expression of his meaning , he never found the smallest hitch or impediment in PREFACE . XV the utterance of his most subtle reasonings Xiv PREFACE .
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... never slacked his hold , till he had crushed body and tail to dust . He was always ratiocinating in his own mind , and therefore some- times seemed incoherent to the partial observer . It happened to him as to Pindar , who in modern ...
... never slacked his hold , till he had crushed body and tail to dust . He was always ratiocinating in his own mind , and therefore some- times seemed incoherent to the partial observer . It happened to him as to Pindar , who in modern ...
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... never recollect , except by yourself thinking the argument over again . In so doing , the order and the characteristic expressions will for the most part spontaneously arise ; and it is scarcely credible with what degree of accuracy ...
... never recollect , except by yourself thinking the argument over again . In so doing , the order and the characteristic expressions will for the most part spontaneously arise ; and it is scarcely credible with what degree of accuracy ...
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... never attempted to give dialogue — indeed , there was seldom much dialogue to give the great point with me was to condense what I could remember on each particular topic into intelligible wholes with as little injury to the living ...
... never attempted to give dialogue — indeed , there was seldom much dialogue to give the great point with me was to condense what I could remember on each particular topic into intelligible wholes with as little injury to the living ...
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