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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 the nature of the things , which are forced into a ...
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 the nature of the things , which are forced into a ...
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The surface of their minds , like that of their bodies , seems of a finer texture than ours ; more soft , and susceptible of immediate impulses . They have less muscular strength ; less power of continued voluntary attention - of reason ...
The surface of their minds , like that of their bodies , seems of a finer texture than ours ; more soft , and susceptible of immediate impulses . They have less muscular strength ; less power of continued voluntary attention - of reason ...
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every reason to the contrary . The reader is led every moment to expect a denouement , and is as often disappointed on some trifling pretext . The whole artifice of her fable consists in coming to no conclusion .
every reason to the contrary . The reader is led every moment to expect a denouement , and is as often disappointed on some trifling pretext . The whole artifice of her fable consists in coming to no conclusion .
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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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