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Page 88
... perhaps various and accidental ; or , at least , they are so strongly obscured by the unfavourable cast of the features , that they require to be studied in order to be understood . When this has been done , however , we learn to make ...
... perhaps various and accidental ; or , at least , they are so strongly obscured by the unfavourable cast of the features , that they require to be studied in order to be understood . When this has been done , however , we learn to make ...
Page 386
... perhaps cannot better be described , than by comparing it with the wit of Ad- dison , to which it was , in all its shapes , totally dissimilar . The one was a weapon infinitely more powerful - though the other required much more of ...
... perhaps cannot better be described , than by comparing it with the wit of Ad- dison , to which it was , in all its shapes , totally dissimilar . The one was a weapon infinitely more powerful - though the other required much more of ...
Page 393
... perhaps of pride and haughtiness , but his pride was more lofty , his haughti- ness more independent . He could not bend to great- ness , nor stoop to rise as Warburton certainly could do , and sometimes did . His character , while it ...
... perhaps of pride and haughtiness , but his pride was more lofty , his haughti- ness more independent . He could not bend to great- ness , nor stoop to rise as Warburton certainly could do , and sometimes did . His character , while it ...
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