The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Volume 1 |
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Page 53
... humanity ? " Book - knowledge , in a word , then , is know- ledge communicable by books : and it is general and liberal for this reason , that it is intelligible and interesting on the bare suggestion . That to which any one feels a ...
... humanity ? " Book - knowledge , in a word , then , is know- ledge communicable by books : and it is general and liberal for this reason , that it is intelligible and interesting on the bare suggestion . That to which any one feels a ...
Page 54
... human mind . There are certain broader aspects of society and views of things common to every subject , and more or ... humanity , and the modest but touching descriptions of familiar incidents and rural objects scattered through it ...
... human mind . There are certain broader aspects of society and views of things common to every subject , and more or ... humanity , and the modest but touching descriptions of familiar incidents and rural objects scattered through it ...
Page 55
... humanity , " etherial mould , sky - tinctured , " that books of the better sort are made . They contain the language of thought . It must happen that , in the course of time and the variety of human capacity , some persons will have ...
... humanity , " etherial mould , sky - tinctured , " that books of the better sort are made . They contain the language of thought . It must happen that , in the course of time and the variety of human capacity , some persons will have ...
Page 73
... human misery , and thinks it ought to be pro- hibited . He tries to find out beforehand what- ever it is that you take a particular pride or pleasure in , that he may annoy your self - love in the tenderest point ( as if he were probing ...
... human misery , and thinks it ought to be pro- hibited . He tries to find out beforehand what- ever it is that you take a particular pride or pleasure in , that he may annoy your self - love in the tenderest point ( as if he were probing ...
Page 101
... guishing and analysing , should insist that in treating of human nature , of moral good and evil , the nominal differences are alone of any value , or that in describing the feelings and motives of men , any thing that conveys the smallest.
... guishing and analysing , should insist that in treating of human nature , of moral good and evil , the nominal differences are alone of any value , or that in describing the feelings and motives of men , any thing that conveys the smallest.
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