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16.
Why many arrived from foreign countries who were esteemed
there as men of sense are considered here as fools, & vice versa,
Why our beaux espirits here are often but fools in other
countries?
17.
The pride of the greatest part of the first nobility,
where does it lay in the Soul or in the head?
18.
Why in other parts of Europe people of moderate understanding
are capable of writing intelligibly and why with
us often people of great sharpness acuteness write so very unintelligibly?
19.
Why with us things are begun and with great heat
and eagerness, then are left and not uncommonly
entirely forgotten?
20.
How to destroy two opposite & hurtfull prejudices, one
that of thinking everything bad with us and everything
good in other countries. The other the thinking everything
good with us & bad in other countries.
21.
In what consists our National Character.
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Samuel Bentham |
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