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... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 " Dear sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it ...
... reason I had to hope for the countenance of that venerable gentleman to this work , will appear from what he wrote to me upon a former occasion from Oxford , November 17 , 1785 " Dear sir , I hazard this letter , not knowing where it ...
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... reasons why these nar- ratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruction or delight , and why most accounts of par- ticular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delay- ed till interest and envy are ...
... reasons why these nar- ratives are often written by such as were not likely to give much instruction or delight , and why most accounts of par- ticular persons are barren and useless . If a life be delay- ed till interest and envy are ...
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... reason to doubt . For there is no in stance of any man , whose history has been minutely re- lated , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly ...
... reason to doubt . For there is no in stance of any man , whose history has been minutely re- lated , that did not in every part of life discover the same proportion of intellectual vigour . " In all such investigations it is certainly ...
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... reason , on every subject that is not connected with the immediate seat of their disorder , with a luminous acuteness that casts the mental powers of other men into shade . See Lord Erskine's speech on insanity for some very precise and ...
... reason , on every subject that is not connected with the immediate seat of their disorder , with a luminous acuteness that casts the mental powers of other men into shade . See Lord Erskine's speech on insanity for some very precise and ...
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... reason , the disturbance or obscuration of that faculty was the evil most to be dreaded . Insanity , therefore , was the object of his most dismal apprehension ; and he fancied himself seized by it , or approaching to it , at the very ...
... reason , the disturbance or obscuration of that faculty was the evil most to be dreaded . Insanity , therefore , was the object of his most dismal apprehension ; and he fancied himself seized by it , or approaching to it , at the very ...
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