Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Հատոր 1W.H. Allen & Company, 1840 |
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... faculty than an acknowledgment of its value . People are often ready to resign all pretensions to it for the praise of candour , because they think they can well afford the sacrifice . A weakness in this faculty is not thought any ...
... faculty than an acknowledgment of its value . People are often ready to resign all pretensions to it for the praise of candour , because they think they can well afford the sacrifice . A weakness in this faculty is not thought any ...
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... edition , just as he met with suitable materials in the course of his extensive reading . Montaigne expresses much the same opinion of the faculty of L memory as Pope does . " In my country , OF A WANT OF MEMORY . 73 1332.
... edition , just as he met with suitable materials in the course of his extensive reading . Montaigne expresses much the same opinion of the faculty of L memory as Pope does . " In my country , OF A WANT OF MEMORY . 73 1332.
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... faculty was personified by the ancients as the mother of the Muses . Even Montaigne himself , in alluding to the anecdote of Messala Cor- vinus having been two years without any trace of memory , observes that a privation of this faculty ...
... faculty was personified by the ancients as the mother of the Muses . Even Montaigne himself , in alluding to the anecdote of Messala Cor- vinus having been two years without any trace of memory , observes that a privation of this faculty ...
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... faculty is usually the strongest , when the other faculties are in their prime ; and fades in old age , when there is a general decay of mind and body . Old men , indeed , are proverbially narrative , and from this circumstance it ...
... faculty is usually the strongest , when the other faculties are in their prime ; and fades in old age , when there is a general decay of mind and body . Old men , indeed , are proverbially narrative , and from this circumstance it ...
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... faculty of memory , and exerts that faculty on some peculiar class of objects , those observers will inevitably be puzzled who do not sufficiently connect the result with the process by which it is effected . Nemonica , or the art of ...
... faculty of memory , and exerts that faculty on some peculiar class of objects , those observers will inevitably be puzzled who do not sufficiently connect the result with the process by which it is effected . Nemonica , or the art of ...
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Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Հատոր 1 David Lester Richardson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Հատոր 1 David Lester Richardson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
Literary Leaves; Or, Prose and Verse Chiefly Written in India, Հատոր 1 David Lester Richardson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1840 |
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