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... speak or can be taught to speak . They never can transmigrate into new incarnations . . . . All the literature of knowledge builds only ground- nests , that are swept away by floods , or confounded by the plough ; but the literature of ...
... speak or can be taught to speak . They never can transmigrate into new incarnations . . . . All the literature of knowledge builds only ground- nests , that are swept away by floods , or confounded by the plough ; but the literature of ...
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... speak of them separately , not be- cause it is necessary so to do with reference to that which is essential literature , but because attention has lately been drawn to the subject of the social position of woman , and there is heard at ...
... speak of them separately , not be- cause it is necessary so to do with reference to that which is essential literature , but because attention has lately been drawn to the subject of the social position of woman , and there is heard at ...
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... speaking of one of his female friends , writes , " She is a critic by nature and not by rule , and has a perception of what is good or bad in composition , that I never knew deceive her ; insomuch that when two sorts of expressions have ...
... speaking of one of his female friends , writes , " She is a critic by nature and not by rule , and has a perception of what is good or bad in composition , that I never knew deceive her ; insomuch that when two sorts of expressions have ...
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... speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But never was any poet more indebted to such friends than Cowper . Had it not been for Mrs. Unwin , he would probably never have appeared in ...
... speaking from my own experience , and the greatest poet of the age would confirm it by his . But never was any poet more indebted to such friends than Cowper . Had it not been for Mrs. Unwin , he would probably never have appeared in ...
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... speaking proclaimed , by both principle and practice , that the sophistications which are apt to gather round the intellects of men , clouding their vision , are best cleared away by that spiritual condition more conge- nial to the soul ...
... speaking proclaimed , by both principle and practice , that the sophistications which are apt to gather round the intellects of men , clouding their vision , are best cleared away by that spiritual condition more conge- nial to the soul ...
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