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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 166
by Dugald Stewart - 1821
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the human mind

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...what has not been considered and cannot be recalled." f The tendency, however, of scholastic disputations to cure these defects, it must not be forgotten,...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the human mind

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigor deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...what has not been considered and cannot be recalled." f The tendency, however, of scholastic disputations to cure these defects, it must not be forgotten,...
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Life of Dr. Adam Smith

William Draper - 1830 - 44 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and ' whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...; or whose attention to their own character makes thenvunwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."" The light...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...not been considered, and cannot be recalled."* The light in which the characteristic quality of his mind was regarded by his friends maybe partly gathered,...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts ; w hosi; bashfulness restrains their exertion, and suffers...not been considered, and cannot be recalled."* The light in which the characteristic quality of his mind was regarded by his friends may be partly gathered,...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...; or whose attention to their own character makes them_unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."* The light...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...; or whose attention to their own character makes them_unwilling to utter at hazard what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled."" The light...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...suffers them not to speak till the time of speaking i» past; or whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling to utter at hazard what has...
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Works, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts : whose bashfulncss restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to...what has not been considered, and cannot be recalled. Of Dryden's sluggishness in conversation it is vain to search or to guess the cause. He certainly wanted...
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Eminent Literary and Scientific Men: John Dryden. Two centuries of minor ...

Robert Bell - 1839 - 430 pages
...operate only at leisure and in retirement, and whose intellectual vigour deserts them in conversation ; whom merriment confuses, and objection disconcerts...restrains their exertion, and suffers them not to speak until the time of speaking is past ; or, whose attention to their own character makes them unwilling...
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