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... thought , sentiment , and motive , than are here . " — N. A. Review . " The judgment of the most competent and respected author- ity has been passed upon these works , and has decided that they are eminently worthy of being kept in ...
... thought , sentiment , and motive , than are here . " — N. A. Review . " The judgment of the most competent and respected author- ity has been passed upon these works , and has decided that they are eminently worthy of being kept in ...
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... thought of medi- cine . A small purse was made up ; and in his twenty - fourth year , he was sent to Edinburgh . At Edinburgh , he passed eighteen months in nominal attendance on lectures , and picked up some superficial information ...
... thought of medi- cine . A small purse was made up ; and in his twenty - fourth year , he was sent to Edinburgh . At Edinburgh , he passed eighteen months in nominal attendance on lectures , and picked up some superficial information ...
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... . He was for a time usher of a school , and felt the miseries and humiliations of this situation so keenly , that he thought it a promotion to be per- mitted to earn his bread as a bookseller's hack ; MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . XV.
... . He was for a time usher of a school , and felt the miseries and humiliations of this situation so keenly , that he thought it a promotion to be per- mitted to earn his bread as a bookseller's hack ; MEMOIR OF GOLDSMITH . XV.
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... thought of a painter who should mix August and January in one landscape , who should introduce a frozen river into a harvest scene ? Would it be a suffi- cient defence of such a picture to say that every part was exquisitely coloured ...
... thought of a painter who should mix August and January in one landscape , who should introduce a frozen river into a harvest scene ? Would it be a suffi- cient defence of such a picture to say that every part was exquisitely coloured ...
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... thoughts on every subject were confused even to absurdity , but they required only a little time to work themselves clear . When he wrote , they had that time ; and therefore his readers pronounced him a man of genius ; but when he ...
... thoughts on every subject were confused even to absurdity , but they required only a little time to work themselves clear . When he wrote , they had that time ; and therefore his readers pronounced him a man of genius ; but when he ...
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