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… obliges us to exercise patience and attention, and gives freedom and elasticity to our disquisitions’, while Samuel Johnson explained that 7 . De Chalesme, L’Homme de qualité [1671], cited in Domna C. Stanton, The Aristocrat as Art (New … ; William Godwin, An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice [1793] (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 289; Samuel Johnson, ‘Solitude not eligible’ in The Adventurer, no 126, (19 Jan. 1754). Not surprisingly, conversation would be … to perpetual silence’. 22 18 . Maria and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Practical Education, 3 vols, 2nd ed. (London: J. Johnson, 1801), p. 357. 19 . Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies [1795], (London: Joseph Malaby Dent, 1993), p. …
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