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I do not know whether an artful generaliser could get anything out of the circumstances in which the best of them grew; I should say myself that nothing more than the system of government, the conditions of the electorate and the legislature, and the existence from time to time of
Political Pamphlets George Saintsbury 1889
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He strikes me as a very clever fellow; I wish he was not quite so grand a generaliser.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845
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To what miserable inconsistencies and rubbish this truckling to opposite opinions leads the great generaliser!
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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The other, a brilliant though not always a profound generaliser, tells us that we must "leave a too close and lingering adherence to facts, and study the sentiment as it appeared in hope not in history ... with the ideal is the rose of joy.
Thomas Carlyle John Nichol 1863
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