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It is , therefore , a fair test , if not of philosophical or abstract truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion and common sense ; for it can only expose to instantaneous contempt that which is condemned by public ...
It is , therefore , a fair test , if not of philosophical or abstract truth , at least of what is truth according to public opinion and common sense ; for it can only expose to instantaneous contempt that which is condemned by public ...
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In this sense Ęsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another species . Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any ...
In this sense Ęsop was the greatest wit and moralist that ever lived . Ape and slave , he looked askance at human nature , and beheld its weaknesses and errors transferred to another species . Vice and virtue were to him as plain as any ...
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He had an intense feeling and command over the impressions of sense , of habit , of character , and passion , the serious and the comic , in a word , of nature , as it fell within his own observation , or came within the sphere of his ...
He had an intense feeling and command over the impressions of sense , of habit , of character , and passion , the serious and the comic , in a word , of nature , as it fell within his own observation , or came within the sphere of his ...
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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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