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This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of ... In a word , the shrewd separation or disentangling of ideas that seem the same , or where the secret contradiction is not sufficiently suspected , and is of a ludicrous and ...
This is certainly as mortifying an inversion of the idea of ... In a word , the shrewd separation or disentangling of ideas that seem the same , or where the secret contradiction is not sufficiently suspected , and is of a ludicrous and ...
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that is to say , whenever , by any violence done to their ideas , they could make out an abstract likeness or ... raise or adorn one idea by another more striking or more beautiful : the object of these writers was to match any one idea ...
that is to say , whenever , by any violence done to their ideas , they could make out an abstract likeness or ... raise or adorn one idea by another more striking or more beautiful : the object of these writers was to match any one idea ...
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... in a word , of nature , as it fell within his own observation , or came within the sphere of his actual experience ; but he had little power beyond that sphere , or sympathy with that which existed only in idea .
... in a word , of nature , as it fell within his own observation , or came within the sphere of his actual experience ; but he had little power beyond that sphere , or sympathy with that which existed only in idea .
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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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