Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 3C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
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... imagination and consummate scholarship , he is a very different species of writer from his garrulous and mitred namesake : his English style is singularly flowing and harmonious , as well as perspicuous and animated , and rises on fit ...
... imagination and consummate scholarship , he is a very different species of writer from his garrulous and mitred namesake : his English style is singularly flowing and harmonious , as well as perspicuous and animated , and rises on fit ...
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... imagination . All philoso- phy is reduced to a few principles , and those principles comprised in a few propositions . And , as the whole structure of speculation rests upon three or four axioms or maxims , so that of practice also ...
... imagination . All philoso- phy is reduced to a few principles , and those principles comprised in a few propositions . And , as the whole structure of speculation rests upon three or four axioms or maxims , so that of practice also ...
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... imagination , or creative power , for the other . Besides , the very passionless character of his mind would have unfitted him for going far into the philosophy of our complex nature , in which the passions are the revealers and ...
... imagination , or creative power , for the other . Besides , the very passionless character of his mind would have unfitted him for going far into the philosophy of our complex nature , in which the passions are the revealers and ...
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... imaginations in the world , sometimes , in the height of his fits , calling himself God Almighty and monarch of the universe ; taking three old high - crowned hats , and clapping them all on his head three - story - high , with a large ...
... imaginations in the world , sometimes , in the height of his fits , calling himself God Almighty and monarch of the universe ; taking three old high - crowned hats , and clapping them all on his head three - story - high , with a large ...
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... imaginations as one would , and the like , but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things , full of melancholy and indisposition , and un- pleasing to themselves ? " Swift , with the phraseology of this passage ...
... imaginations as one would , and the like , but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things , full of melancholy and indisposition , and un- pleasing to themselves ? " Swift , with the phraseology of this passage ...
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