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... but at best are an insipid fruit while the northern geniuses are like melons , of which not one in fifty is good ; but when it is so , it is an exquisite relish . - Berkeley . B IV . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with Laconics. ...
... but at best are an insipid fruit while the northern geniuses are like melons , of which not one in fifty is good ; but when it is so , it is an exquisite relish . - Berkeley . B IV . To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with Laconics. ...
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... genius than that which lies in his fingers : they will even be en- tertained with the rattling of coaches ,, the rumbling of carts , and the delicate cry of cod and mackerel . - Smollet . XXIII . Next to clothes being fine , they should ...
... genius than that which lies in his fingers : they will even be en- tertained with the rattling of coaches ,, the rumbling of carts , and the delicate cry of cod and mackerel . - Smollet . XXIII . Next to clothes being fine , they should ...
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... genius , which seldom happens above once in an age . - Sterne . XLVIII . Some reserve is a debt to prudence , as freedom and simplicity of conversation is a debt to good - nature.— Shenstone . XLIX . No man is the wiser for his learning ...
... genius , which seldom happens above once in an age . - Sterne . XLVIII . Some reserve is a debt to prudence , as freedom and simplicity of conversation is a debt to good - nature.— Shenstone . XLIX . No man is the wiser for his learning ...
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... genius is always , in the beginning of life , as much unknown to himself as to others ; and it is only after frequent trials , attended with success , that he dares think himself equal to those undertakings in which those who have ...
... genius is always , in the beginning of life , as much unknown to himself as to others ; and it is only after frequent trials , attended with success , that he dares think himself equal to those undertakings in which those who have ...
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... genius , like the most fertile soil , when un- cultivated , shoots up into the rankest weeds ; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man , produces to its slothful owner , the most abundant crop of poisons . - Hume ...
... genius , like the most fertile soil , when un- cultivated , shoots up into the rankest weeds ; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man , produces to its slothful owner , the most abundant crop of poisons . - Hume ...
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