The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Volumen4White, Stokes, & Allen, 1876 |
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... seems to me that it ought to be possible to explain a true theory of metaphysics in words which I can understand . I can understand Locke , and Berkeley , and Hume , and Reid , and Stewart . I can understand Cicero's Academics , and ...
... seems to me that it ought to be possible to explain a true theory of metaphysics in words which I can understand . I can understand Locke , and Berkeley , and Hume , and Reid , and Stewart . I can understand Cicero's Academics , and ...
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... seems to agree , that I sometimes repeat myself . I suspect there is truth in this . Yet it is very hard to know what to do . If an important principle is laid down only once , it is unnoticed or forgotten by dull readers , who are the ...
... seems to agree , that I sometimes repeat myself . I suspect there is truth in this . Yet it is very hard to know what to do . If an important principle is laid down only once , it is unnoticed or forgotten by dull readers , who are the ...
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... seem quite confident , will have been taken off in less than six months . * Of such a run I had never dreamed . But I had thought that the book would have a permanent place in our literature ; object only forty days . During forty days ...
... seem quite confident , will have been taken off in less than six months . * Of such a run I had never dreamed . But I had thought that the book would have a permanent place in our literature ; object only forty days . During forty days ...
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... fooling : but I doubt whether everybody will taste the humour as I do . I wish him success heartily . I finished the Life of Lord Sidmouth . Addington seems to He me to have had more pluck than I had 3 * 1848-52 . 35 LORD MACAULAY .
... fooling : but I doubt whether everybody will taste the humour as I do . I wish him success heartily . I finished the Life of Lord Sidmouth . Addington seems to He me to have had more pluck than I had 3 * 1848-52 . 35 LORD MACAULAY .
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... seem to aim at being obscure . Indeed , they may be right enough in one sense ; for many readers give credit for pro- fundity to whatever is obscure , and call all that is perspicuous shallow . But coraggio ! and think of A.D. 2850 ...
... seem to aim at being obscure . Indeed , they may be right enough in one sense ; for many readers give credit for pro- fundity to whatever is obscure , and call all that is perspicuous shallow . But coraggio ! and think of A.D. 2850 ...
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