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Pagina 53
All this does not lose in irony when we recall his indignation with French or Scottish waiters who dared to paw his sugar ; though I suppose he might have retorted that any man may be allowed to dislike another's fingers more than his ...
All this does not lose in irony when we recall his indignation with French or Scottish waiters who dared to paw his sugar ; though I suppose he might have retorted that any man may be allowed to dislike another's fingers more than his ...
Pagina 62
For , first , it is optimistic to suppose that many of these social butterflies would ' think ' , even when they did get home . Secondly , one may doubt whether even those who did ' think ' would all have thoughts so dismal .
For , first , it is optimistic to suppose that many of these social butterflies would ' think ' , even when they did get home . Secondly , one may doubt whether even those who did ' think ' would all have thoughts so dismal .
Pagina 163
That he could entertain such illusions is , I suppose , partly due to the generalizing tendencies of his time , whose Porson is said to have likewise maintained that anyone , by taking as much trouble , could become as good a critic as ...
That he could entertain such illusions is , I suppose , partly due to the generalizing tendencies of his time , whose Porson is said to have likewise maintained that anyone , by taking as much trouble , could become as good a critic as ...
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