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... reader , that he had no concern with books at all . There is a number , a frightfully increasing number , of books that are decidedly , to the readers of them , not use- ful . But an ingenious reader will learn , also , that a certain ...
... reader , that he had no concern with books at all . There is a number , a frightfully increasing number , of books that are decidedly , to the readers of them , not use- ful . But an ingenious reader will learn , also , that a certain ...
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... ingenious readers complain that their memory is defective , and their studies unfruitful . This defect arises from their indulging the facile pleasures of perceptions , in preference to the labo- rious habit of forming them into ideas ...
... ingenious readers complain that their memory is defective , and their studies unfruitful . This defect arises from their indulging the facile pleasures of perceptions , in preference to the labo- rious habit of forming them into ideas ...
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... reader may be more injured than the author ; others not only read the book , but would also read the man : by which the most ingenious author may be injured by the most impertinent reader . LITERARY MISCELLANIES RALPH WALDO EMERSON ...
... reader may be more injured than the author ; others not only read the book , but would also read the man : by which the most ingenious author may be injured by the most impertinent reader . LITERARY MISCELLANIES RALPH WALDO EMERSON ...
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