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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... hope you will have a very _agreeable_ day, and find it all mighty _delightful_. But I must observe that five is the very awkwardest of all possible numbers to sit down to table; and I cannot but be surprised that such an _elegant_ lady as Mrs. Grant should not contrive ... |
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[ FICTION]
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| ... my readers an intelligent interest in the art of flight, and, profiting by friendly criticism of several of my former works, I imagine that this is best obtained by setting forth the romance of triumph in the realms of an element which has defied man for untold centuries, rather than ... |
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[ POETRY]
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| ... The claiming earth; It holds my nest And draws me down To where Love's crown Of priceless worth Awaits my breast. Sweet, sweet! Ah, this is best And this most meet, Sweet, sweet! ah, sweet! 'Luvly Miss' NOBODY thought of consequences. There was a lighted paraffin lamp on the table ... |
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[ MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY]
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| ... exist only in a mind perceiving them; and this is true not only of the ideas we are acquainted with at present, but likewise of all possible ideas whatsoever. 79. But, you will insist, what if I have no reason to believe the existence of Matter? what if I cannot ... |
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[ KNOWLEDGE]
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| ... to suppose that finite extension is infinitely divisible? Qu. 6. Whether the diagrams in a geometrical demonstration are not to be considered as signs of all possible finite figures, of all sensible and imaginable extensions or magnitudes of the same kind? Qu. 7. Whether it be possible to free geometry ... |
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[ ESSAYS]
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| ... sign, and attaches to the substance. This repairs the wounded affection. Meantime, as life wears on, it proves a game of permutation and combination of all possible positions of the parties, to employ all the resources of each, and acquaint each with the strength and weakness of the other. For ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... truth. It is only boldness that can baffle them. They are a most diligent people. They will think of all likely difficulties, but not of all possible ones. They have not much imagination. They are like steam engines which must keep to prepared tracks. There they will hunt any man ... |
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[ DRAMA]
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| ... sea and the river-springs will refuse me a crossing, and I shall become like Ixion who revolves in chains upon that wheel. Wherefore this is best, that henceforth I be seen by none of the Hellenes, amongst whom in happier days I lived in bliss. What right have I ... |
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[ IN SCANDINAVIAN LANGUAGES]
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| ... committing some fallacy, and drawing his argument into paradox-for this was the second item of the sophist's programme-in the first place, then, this is best brought about by a certain manner of questioning and through the question. For to put the question without framing it with reference to ... |
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[ ENGLISH MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS]
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| ... not yourself with careless servants, they will disorder you; rather pay them, and let them go, if they will not be better by admonitions: this is best to avoid many words, which I know wound the soul and offend the Lord. 3rd, Cast up your income, and see what it ... |
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[ ENGLISH FICTION]
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| ... do not care how modest, how humble our commencement be, so it be made, on sure grounds, and .have a safe foundation. In thinking of all possible and impossible places where, we could establish a school, I have thought of Burlington, or rather of the neighbourhood of Burlington. Do you ... |
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