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... less speculative . " A child of the idea " as the phrase runs , he was not . He had great capacity for business , great industry , though , like Scott , he regretted his own indolence ; he had great readiness and clearness in financial ...
... less speculative . " A child of the idea " as the phrase runs , he was not . He had great capacity for business , great industry , though , like Scott , he regretted his own indolence ; he had great readiness and clearness in financial ...
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... less spirited course , and overbore his opinions . The mild , the half - hearted course was taken : it were better to have tried and to have been defeated . This was his counsel ; it was over- ruled . But these things , and many others ...
... less spirited course , and overbore his opinions . The mild , the half - hearted course was taken : it were better to have tried and to have been defeated . This was his counsel ; it was over- ruled . But these things , and many others ...
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... less enticing , because to him his conduct was so easy . When once he had passed out of the thoughtlessness of early boyhood , it seems as if , unlike the rest of us , he had to fight no temptations . In one of his letters he says that ...
... less enticing , because to him his conduct was so easy . When once he had passed out of the thoughtlessness of early boyhood , it seems as if , unlike the rest of us , he had to fight no temptations . In one of his letters he says that ...
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... less irregular in his earlier years at Eton . Sir Thomas Farrer remembers one cross country expedition , wherein an essential part of Northcote's raiment his trousers , indeed - was torn , and pinned up by Sir Thomas with thorns , so ...
... less irregular in his earlier years at Eton . Sir Thomas Farrer remembers one cross country expedition , wherein an essential part of Northcote's raiment his trousers , indeed - was torn , and pinned up by Sir Thomas with thorns , so ...
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... less a point of honour than a duty and pleasure to seek literary dis- tinction by steady and well - directed industry . " At this date he composed an essay on " Tails , " of somewhat Dar- winian tendencies . At home his sister , Mrs ...
... less a point of honour than a duty and pleasure to seek literary dis- tinction by steady and well - directed industry . " At this date he composed an essay on " Tails , " of somewhat Dar- winian tendencies . At home his sister , Mrs ...
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