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them , or suddenly runs up against them where it had least expected it , the shock or additional impetus given to the imagination by the disappointment or the discovery , in a matter of this indifference , will only vent itself in a fit ...
them , or suddenly runs up against them where it had least expected it , the shock or additional impetus given to the imagination by the disappointment or the discovery , in a matter of this indifference , will only vent itself in a fit ...
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Deckar has given an admirable description of a mad - house in one of his plays . But it might be perhaps objected , that it was only a literal account taken from Bedlam at that time : and it might be answered , that the old poets took ...
Deckar has given an admirable description of a mad - house in one of his plays . But it might be perhaps objected , that it was only a literal account taken from Bedlam at that time : and it might be answered , that the old poets took ...
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He had an instantaneous perception of the quantity of truth or good in any given system ; and of the analogy of any given result or principle to others of the same kind scattered through nature or history . His observations take in a ...
He had an instantaneous perception of the quantity of truth or good in any given system ; and of the analogy of any given result or principle to others of the same kind scattered through nature or history . His observations take in a ...
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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 California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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