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To call a quality ' typical ' may mean either that it is common among people or things of a given kind ( as good humour seems typical of the English ) ; or it may mean merely that this quality is less uncommon there than elsewhere .
To call a quality ' typical ' may mean either that it is common among people or things of a given kind ( as good humour seems typical of the English ) ; or it may mean merely that this quality is less uncommon there than elsewhere .
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“ Sir , what Pope means , if he means what he says , is both false and foolish . In the first place , ' what oft was thought is all the worse for being often thought , because , to be wit , it ought to be newly thought . ” Mr Pepys .
“ Sir , what Pope means , if he means what he says , is both false and foolish . In the first place , ' what oft was thought is all the worse for being often thought , because , to be wit , it ought to be newly thought . ” Mr Pepys .
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I have very often gone to bed at six in the morning , and rose , notwithstanding , at eight ; by which means I got many hours in the morning , that my companions lost ; and the want of sleep obliged me to keep good hours the next ...
I have very often gone to bed at six in the morning , and rose , notwithstanding , at eight ; by which means I got many hours in the morning , that my companions lost ; and the want of sleep obliged me to keep good hours the next ...
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The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-century Characters: Johnson ... Frank Laurence Lucas Vizualizare fragmente - 1958 |
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