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Page 99
What has given its superior reputation to the Spectator , is the greater gravity of its pretensions , its moral dissertations and critical reasonings , by which I confess myself less edified than by other things , which are thought more ...
What has given its superior reputation to the Spectator , is the greater gravity of its pretensions , its moral dissertations and critical reasonings , by which I confess myself less edified than by other things , which are thought more ...
Page 132
This work then , even supposing it to be false , is invaluable as demonstrating an important truth by the reductio ad absurdum ; or it is an experimentum crucis in one of the grand and trying questions of moral philosophy .
This work then , even supposing it to be false , is invaluable as demonstrating an important truth by the reductio ad absurdum ; or it is an experimentum crucis in one of the grand and trying questions of moral philosophy .
Page 360
... but vicious : the sentiments are such as do not become the person into whose mouth they are put , nor that of any other the language is a mixture of metaphysical jargon and flaring prose : the moral is immorality .
... but vicious : the sentiments are such as do not become the person into whose mouth they are put , nor that of any other the language is a mixture of metaphysical jargon and flaring prose : the moral is immorality .
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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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