The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J. M. Dent and Sons, Limited, 1931 |
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... reason and judgment , as well as of wit and fancy.- Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argument , consists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has nothing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with ...
... reason and judgment , as well as of wit and fancy.- Mere wit , as opposed to reason or argument , consists in striking out some casual and partial coincidence which has nothing to do , or at least implies no necessary connection with ...
Page 132
... reason and general utility are the only test and standard of moral rectitude . If this principle is true , then the system is true but I think that Mr. Godwin's book has done more than any thing else to overturn the sufficiency of this ...
... reason and general utility are the only test and standard of moral rectitude . If this principle is true , then the system is true but I think that Mr. Godwin's book has done more than any thing else to overturn the sufficiency of this ...
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... reason you have an account of him . The wretch ( yet your wretch ) though with languishing steps runs fast to his grave ; and will you suffer a temple ( how poorly built soever , but yet a temple of your deity ) to be rased ? But he ...
... reason you have an account of him . The wretch ( yet your wretch ) though with languishing steps runs fast to his grave ; and will you suffer a temple ( how poorly built soever , but yet a temple of your deity ) to be rased ? But he ...
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