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... printed . His favourite maxim was , “ vive la bagatelle : " he thought trifles a necessary part of life , and perhaps found them necessary to himself . It seems impossible to him to be idle , and his disorders made it difficult or ...
... printed . His favourite maxim was , “ vive la bagatelle : " he thought trifles a necessary part of life , and perhaps found them necessary to himself . It seems impossible to him to be idle , and his disorders made it difficult or ...
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... printed soon after his death . These two performances shew a mind incessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute occurrences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting ...
... printed soon after his death . These two performances shew a mind incessantly attentive , and , when it was not employed upon great things , busy with minute occurrences . It is apparent that he must have had the habit of noting ...
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... printed , was unreasonably severe . . The suspicions of his irreligion proceeded in a great measure from his dread of hypocrisy ; instead of wish- ing to seem better , he delighted in seeming worse than he was . He went in London to ...
... printed , was unreasonably severe . . The suspicions of his irreligion proceeded in a great measure from his dread of hypocrisy ; instead of wish- ing to seem better , he delighted in seeming worse than he was . He went in London to ...
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... printed books ; a species of penmanship in which he retained great excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hamp- shire under Taverner , a Romish priest ...
... printed books ; a species of penmanship in which he retained great excellence through his whole life , though his ordinary hand was not elegant . When he was about eight , he was placed in Hamp- shire under Taverner , a Romish priest ...
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... printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and pro- fessed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Si- lence after Rochester's " Nothing . " He had now form- ed his versification , and the smoothness of his numbers surpassed ...
... printed . He sometimes imitated the English poets , and pro- fessed to have written at fourteen his poem upon Si- lence after Rochester's " Nothing . " He had now form- ed his versification , and the smoothness of his numbers surpassed ...
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