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... formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I suppress it ? Why " out of the abundance of the heart " should I not speak ? Let ...
... formed by nature and by habit , that to restrain the effusion of delight , on having obtained such fame , to me would be truly painful . Why then should I suppress it ? Why " out of the abundance of the heart " should I not speak ? Let ...
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... formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes , though its appearance was little different from that of the other . There is amongst his prayers , one inscribed , " When my eye was ...
... formed , and hurt his visual nerves so much , that he did not see at all with one of his eyes , though its appearance was little different from that of the other . There is amongst his prayers , one inscribed , " When my eye was ...
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... formed his judgment of others , we may be absolutely certain , both from his writings and his conver- sation , that his reading was very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith , than whom few were better judges on this subject , once observed to me ...
... formed his judgment of others , we may be absolutely certain , both from his writings and his conver- sation , that his reading was very extensive . Dr. Adam Smith , than whom few were better judges on this subject , once observed to me ...
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... forming periods , in low whispers to himself , when shallow ob- servers thought he was muttering prayers . His own practice was , perhaps , alluded to by Johnson , in the following passage of his life of Pope . " Of com- position there ...
... forming periods , in low whispers to himself , when shallow ob- servers thought he was muttering prayers . His own practice was , perhaps , alluded to by Johnson , in the following passage of his life of Pope . " Of com- position there ...
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... formed any close intimacies with his fellow - collegians . But Dr. Adams told me that he contracted a love and regard for Pembroke college , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that college a present ...
... formed any close intimacies with his fellow - collegians . But Dr. Adams told me that he contracted a love and regard for Pembroke college , which he retained to the last . A short time before his death he sent to that college a present ...
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