Date: 1799
Insinuations "breed suspicion" in the mind
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Date: 1799
"My unfledged fancy had not hitherto soared to this pitch."
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Date: 1814
"His powers of apprehension were so uncommonly quick as almost to resemble intuition, and the chief care of his preceptor was to prevent him, as a sportsman would phrase it, from over-running his game — that is, from acquiring his knowledge in a slight, flimsy, and inadequate manner."
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