The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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... feems attached to me ; but change his condition , and he would be as much attached to the flupideft dunce , or the moft cankered villain . His attachment has no diferimination in it ; it is merely the creature of habit . Just fo human ...
... feems attached to me ; but change his condition , and he would be as much attached to the flupideft dunce , or the moft cankered villain . His attachment has no diferimination in it ; it is merely the creature of habit . Just fo human ...
Page 16
... feems to be a cafe , more frequent than that of poft - dated genius , though not fo much remarked ; and not diffimilar to it in its cir cumftances . This is the cafe of genius , mani- fefting itself , and afterwards becoming extinct ...
... feems to be a cafe , more frequent than that of poft - dated genius , though not fo much remarked ; and not diffimilar to it in its cir cumftances . This is the cafe of genius , mani- fefting itself , and afterwards becoming extinct ...
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... feems to appear from the preceding fpeculations , is not born with us , but generated fubfequent to birth . It by no means follows from hence , that it is the produce of education , or ever was the work of the preceptor . Thousands of ...
... feems to appear from the preceding fpeculations , is not born with us , but generated fubfequent to birth . It by no means follows from hence , that it is the produce of education , or ever was the work of the preceptor . Thousands of ...
Page 33
... feems to depend in this cafe upon the period at which the tafte for reading has com- D menced . menced . If it be late , the mind feems Effay V. Of an Early Tafte for Reading . 33.
... feems to depend in this cafe upon the period at which the tafte for reading has com- D menced . menced . If it be late , the mind feems Effay V. Of an Early Tafte for Reading . 33.
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... feems fre- quently to have acquired a previous obftinacy and untractablenefs . The late reader makes a fuperficial ... feemed to appear in a preceding effay , that genius , when ripened to the birth , may yet be extinguished . Much more ...
... feems fre- quently to have acquired a previous obftinacy and untractablenefs . The late reader makes a fuperficial ... feemed to appear in a preceding effay , that genius , when ripened to the birth , may yet be extinguished . Much more ...
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