The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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Page 41
... seems to repose with com- placency only on the pedantic and far - fetched , the ultima Thule of his knowledge . He has a conscience of letting nothing escape the reader that he knows . Aliquando sufflaminandus erat , is as true of him ...
... seems to repose with com- placency only on the pedantic and far - fetched , the ultima Thule of his knowledge . He has a conscience of letting nothing escape the reader that he knows . Aliquando sufflaminandus erat , is as true of him ...
Page 78
... seems to have been intended for the sake of contrast ; for the portrait of consum- mate , artful hypocrisy in Olivia , is , perhaps , rendered more striking by it . The indignation excited against this odious and pernicious quality by ...
... seems to have been intended for the sake of contrast ; for the portrait of consum- mate , artful hypocrisy in Olivia , is , perhaps , rendered more striking by it . The indignation excited against this odious and pernicious quality by ...
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... seems to have no other feeling but a sickly sense of pain- shew the deepest insight into human nature , and into the effects of those refinements in depravity , by which it has been good - naturedly asserted , that ' vice loses half its ...
... seems to have no other feeling but a sickly sense of pain- shew the deepest insight into human nature , and into the effects of those refinements in depravity , by which it has been good - naturedly asserted , that ' vice loses half its ...
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