Selected Essays of William Hazlitt, 1778-1830Nonesuch Press, 1948 - 807 pagina's |
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Pagina 107
... give it birth , there is nothing to check it or recall us to our senses in the prospect of consequences . We take up and rend in pieces the mere toys of humour , as the gusts of wind take up and whirl about chaff and stubble . Passion ...
... give it birth , there is nothing to check it or recall us to our senses in the prospect of consequences . We take up and rend in pieces the mere toys of humour , as the gusts of wind take up and whirl about chaff and stubble . Passion ...
Pagina 111
... give a bias to causes so slender and insignificant , as the skittle - player bends his body to give a bias to the bowl he has already delivered from his hand , not con- sidering that what is once determined , be the causes ever so ...
... give a bias to causes so slender and insignificant , as the skittle - player bends his body to give a bias to the bowl he has already delivered from his hand , not con- sidering that what is once determined , be the causes ever so ...
Pagina 271
... give you pain ; they say nothing of others that it would give them pain to hear repeated . Scandal and tittle - tattle are long banished from good society . After all , to be wise is to be humane . What would our English blue ...
... give you pain ; they say nothing of others that it would give them pain to hear repeated . Scandal and tittle - tattle are long banished from good society . After all , to be wise is to be humane . What would our English blue ...
Inhoudsopgave
On the Love of Life | 8 |
On Living to Onesself | 24 |
On Reading Old Books | 40 |
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