Impressions of Theophrastus Such: Essays and Leaves from a Note-bookBlackwood, 1901 - 457 pages |
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... scourge in my own discriminating hand . I never felt myself sufficiently meritorious to like being hated as a proof of my superiority , or so thirsty for improvement as to desire that all my acquaintances should give 6 THEOPHRASTUS SUCH.
... scourge in my own discriminating hand . I never felt myself sufficiently meritorious to like being hated as a proof of my superiority , or so thirsty for improvement as to desire that all my acquaintances should give 6 THEOPHRASTUS SUCH.
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... hand in my capability of meeting a severe demand for moral heroism . But that I have at least succeeded in establishing a habit of mind which keeps watch against my self - partiality and promotes a fair consideration of what touches the ...
... hand in my capability of meeting a severe demand for moral heroism . But that I have at least succeeded in establishing a habit of mind which keeps watch against my self - partiality and promotes a fair consideration of what touches the ...
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... hand , I might have objected to Aristotle as too much of a systematiser , and have preferred the freedom of a little self - contradiction as offering more chances of truth . I gather , too , from the undeniable testimony of his disciple ...
... hand , I might have objected to Aristotle as too much of a systematiser , and have preferred the freedom of a little self - contradiction as offering more chances of truth . I gather , too , from the undeniable testimony of his disciple ...
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... likely to feed their comic vein . On the other hand , he made a serious figure in sermons under the name of " Some " or " Others " who had attempted presumptuously to scale eminences too high and arduous for human 42 THEOPHRASTUS SUCH.
... likely to feed their comic vein . On the other hand , he made a serious figure in sermons under the name of " Some " or " Others " who had attempted presumptuously to scale eminences too high and arduous for human 42 THEOPHRASTUS SUCH.
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... hand , he has seen what he fore- boded , that the main idea which was at the root of his too rash theorising has been adopted by Grampus and received with general respect , no reference being heard to the ridic- ulous figure this ...
... hand , he has seen what he fore- boded , that the main idea which was at the root of his too rash theorising has been adopted by Grampus and received with general respect , no reference being heard to the ridic- ulous figure this ...
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