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... genius does not need education - What education means - Whether HENRY CLAY , in this sense , was educated - He enters Mr. Denny's store - Obtains a situation in the clerk's office , at Richmond - Attracts the attention of Chancellor ...
... genius does not need education - What education means - Whether HENRY CLAY , in this sense , was educated - He enters Mr. Denny's store - Obtains a situation in the clerk's office , at Richmond - Attracts the attention of Chancellor ...
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... genius of the artist , than of the forgotten dead , whose features it perpetuates . Triumphal arches and pyramids even , however deeply and strongly they may be founded , change at last to ruinous heaps , or are intrusted , in vain ...
... genius of the artist , than of the forgotten dead , whose features it perpetuates . Triumphal arches and pyramids even , however deeply and strongly they may be founded , change at last to ruinous heaps , or are intrusted , in vain ...
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... genius does not need education - What education means - Whether HENRY CLAY , in this sense , was educated - He enters Mr. Denny's store - Obtains a situation in the clerk's office , at Richmond - Attracts the attention of Chancellor ...
... genius does not need education - What education means - Whether HENRY CLAY , in this sense , was educated - He enters Mr. Denny's store - Obtains a situation in the clerk's office , at Richmond - Attracts the attention of Chancellor ...
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... genius . The great men , whose names they are guilty of thus taking in vain , would be the last to give their voices in confirmation of such a conclusion . The silly error has grown out of a misapprehension of what is implied in the ...
... genius . The great men , whose names they are guilty of thus taking in vain , would be the last to give their voices in confirmation of such a conclusion . The silly error has grown out of a misapprehension of what is implied in the ...
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... genius is conscious of its powers ? " " No really great man , " he asserts , " ever thought himself so . The idea of greatness in the mind answers but ill to our knowledge , or to our ignorance of ourselves . No man is truly himself ...
... genius is conscious of its powers ? " " No really great man , " he asserts , " ever thought himself so . The idea of greatness in the mind answers but ill to our knowledge , or to our ignorance of ourselves . No man is truly himself ...
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