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Page 26
... never known how to read , the career of his great genius might have been confined to piratical cruises on the Levant . By learning and knowledge he discovered his mind to be far above the masses . By these means he gained confidence in ...
... never known how to read , the career of his great genius might have been confined to piratical cruises on the Levant . By learning and knowledge he discovered his mind to be far above the masses . By these means he gained confidence in ...
Page 35
... never be acquired . The exceptions to this rule are so rare , and the facility with which genius seems to overcome the obstacles of ignorance and condition are so surprising , that the mind is led to the conclusion that there are but ...
... never be acquired . The exceptions to this rule are so rare , and the facility with which genius seems to overcome the obstacles of ignorance and condition are so surprising , that the mind is led to the conclusion that there are but ...
Page 36
... never has borne good fruit , it never will . There is many a scrubby bush and tree of the same name , which , if pruned , will spread and swell most proudly , but will bear no fruit . The mental powers are like the moral propensities ...
... never has borne good fruit , it never will . There is many a scrubby bush and tree of the same name , which , if pruned , will spread and swell most proudly , but will bear no fruit . The mental powers are like the moral propensities ...
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... never perpetrated in a free country ; and it may not excite the least surprise , that in less than seven months this luxuriant harvest - field should have stimulated the convocation of a self - constituted " national assembly . " These ...
... never perpetrated in a free country ; and it may not excite the least surprise , that in less than seven months this luxuriant harvest - field should have stimulated the convocation of a self - constituted " national assembly . " These ...
Page 48
... never seen an In- dian , he embraced the feet of his pious benefactor , and obtain- ing leave to visit his native shades , was pursued , and found in the wigwam of his fungative ancestors , far in the recesses of the western wilderness ...
... never seen an In- dian , he embraced the feet of his pious benefactor , and obtain- ing leave to visit his native shades , was pursued , and found in the wigwam of his fungative ancestors , far in the recesses of the western wilderness ...
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