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The handsomest and the best books ( in the bookseller's sense of the word ) are got up exclusively for the fools . Without the aid of fools , both as purchasers and as authors too , there would be no embroiling of the sciences ...
The handsomest and the best books ( in the bookseller's sense of the word ) are got up exclusively for the fools . Without the aid of fools , both as purchasers and as authors too , there would be no embroiling of the sciences ...
Page 535
... absolute and fun- damental distinction whatever . But it is only these last that are the objects of any rational or practical interest . The idea of self properly attaches to objects of sense or memory , but these can never be the ...
... absolute and fun- damental distinction whatever . But it is only these last that are the objects of any rational or practical interest . The idea of self properly attaches to objects of sense or memory , but these can never be the ...
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Take away the sense or apprehension of pleasure and pain , and you would care no more about yourself than you do about the hair of your head or the paring of your nails , the parting with which gives you no sensible uneasiness at the ...
Take away the sense or apprehension of pleasure and pain , and you would care no more about yourself than you do about the hair of your head or the paring of your nails , the parting with which gives you no sensible uneasiness at the ...
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Contents
Flowers | 16 |
Letters to the Students of Glasgow by T Campbell Letter VI 1 VII | 97 |
Landors Imaginary Conversations | 143 |
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