The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by Referring the Anomalies in the Literary Character to the Habits and Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius, Հատոր 1Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833 - 597 էջ |
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... favour of the longevity is what we certainly did not expect . Generally speaking , no professional people have less salu- brious countenances , or more of the sickly cast of thought in their complexions , than lawyers ; and if Hygæia ...
... favour of the longevity is what we certainly did not expect . Generally speaking , no professional people have less salu- brious countenances , or more of the sickly cast of thought in their complexions , than lawyers ; and if Hygæia ...
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... in history , the term is erroneously applied . The sublimest effort of pictorial art that can be adduced in favour of the received opinion of the inventive genius of painting , is that COMPOSERS , SCULPTORS , & e . 133.
... in history , the term is erroneously applied . The sublimest effort of pictorial art that can be adduced in favour of the received opinion of the inventive genius of painting , is that COMPOSERS , SCULPTORS , & e . 133.
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... favoured beyond others with a spiritualized conception of things not only relating to time , but likewise to eternity , was familiar to the ancients , and was probably borrowed by the Jews from the Egyptians , amongst whose descendants ...
... favoured beyond others with a spiritualized conception of things not only relating to time , but likewise to eternity , was familiar to the ancients , and was probably borrowed by the Jews from the Egyptians , amongst whose descendants ...
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... favour , he said , to request of him , which was , that he would collect his works , and commit them to the flames , especially his Jerusalem Delivered . Leibnitz was found dead in his chamber , with a book in his hand . Clarendon's pen ...
... favour , he said , to request of him , which was , that he would collect his works , and commit them to the flames , especially his Jerusalem Delivered . Leibnitz was found dead in his chamber , with a book in his hand . Clarendon's pen ...
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... favour improvidence , or to unfit men for the active duties of life ; but in the habits which literary men contract from excessive application to their pursuits , there is a great deal to disqualify the studious man for those petty ...
... favour improvidence , or to unfit men for the active duties of life ; but in the habits which literary men contract from excessive application to their pursuits , there is a great deal to disqualify the studious man for those petty ...
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