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Page 192
Our understanding ( such as it is , and must remain to be good for any thing ) is not a thoroughfare for common places , smooth as the palm of one's hand , but full of knotty points and jutting excrescences , rough , uneven , overgrown ...
Our understanding ( such as it is , and must remain to be good for any thing ) is not a thoroughfare for common places , smooth as the palm of one's hand , but full of knotty points and jutting excrescences , rough , uneven , overgrown ...
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He sent a shaggy , tattered , staring slave , That when he speaks , draws out his grisly beard , And winds it twice or thrice about his ear ; Whose face has been a grind - stone for men's swords : His hands are hack'd , some fingers cut ...
He sent a shaggy , tattered , staring slave , That when he speaks , draws out his grisly beard , And winds it twice or thrice about his ear ; Whose face has been a grind - stone for men's swords : His hands are hack'd , some fingers cut ...
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The characters of the two sisters , Joyce and Gertrude , are very skilfully contrasted , and the manner in which they mutually betray one another into the hands of their lovers , first in the spirit of mischief , and afterwards of ...
The characters of the two sisters , Joyce and Gertrude , are very skilfully contrasted , and the manner in which they mutually betray one another into the hands of their lovers , first in the spirit of mischief , and afterwards of ...
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Percival Presland Howe, Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Compiled by | James Thornton |
| Publisher | J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of Virginia |
| Digitized | 6 Jul 2009 |
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