The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits ...
The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits ...
Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830
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UAR-^ M P ^/? Digitized by Google Digitized by Google Digitized by Google MR. BEOUOUAM. — SIR F. fiURDETT. 337 we have. If any one possesses any advantage in a considerable degree, he may make himself master of nearly as many more as he pleases, by employing his spare time and cultivating the waste faculties of his mind. While one person is determining on the choice of a pro- fession or study, another shall have made a fortune or gained a merited reputation. While one person is dreaming over th...e meaning of a word, another will have learnt several lan- guages. It is not incapacity, but indolence, indecision, want of imagination, and a prone- ness to a sort of mental tautology, to repeat the same images and tread the same circle, that leaves us so poor, so dull, and inert as we are, so naked of acquirement, so barren of re- sources 1 While we are walking backwards and forwards between Charing-Cross and Temple- Bar, and sitting in the same coffee-house every day, we might make the grand tour of Europe, and visit the Vatican and the Louvre.
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