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Title: The Intellectual Life

Author: =Philip Gilbert Hamerton

Release Date: April 27, 2010 [EBook #32151]

Language: English

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Transcriber's note:

The following typographical errors have been corrected:

Page 86: "We bring ourselves, by its help, to face petty details that
are wearisome, and heavy tasks that are almost appalling."
'appalling' amended from 'appaling'.

Page 153: "That which is truly, and deeply, and seriously an injury
to our intellectual life, is the foolishness of the too common
vanity." 'too' amended from 'two'.

Page 161: "the child had the defects of children, but of children
born in the different countries where he lived." 'lived' amended from
'live'.

Page 294: "The girl was uneducated: it seems hopeless to try to
educate the woman". 'educate' amended from 'educated'.

Page 364: "I am sure that my modern artillery captain,
notwithstanding his bad manners." 'notwithstanding' amended from
'notwithstand'.

Page 377: "I know a distinguished Englishman who is quite remarkable
for the talent with which he arranges his intellectual friendships,
so as never to be dependent on any one." 'intellectual' amended from
'inintellectual'.

Page 383: "The truth is, that to succeed well in fashionable society
the higher intellectual attainments are not so useful as
distinguished skill in those amusements which are the real business
of the fashionable world." 'business of' amended from 'busiof'.

Page 387: "To me it appears the perfect type of that preoccupation
about appearances which blinds the genteel vulgar to the true
nobility of life." 'preoccupation' amended from 'pre-occupation'.

Page 417: "She moves; movement is the law of her life; yet she is as
tranquil in her little cabin as any goodwife on shore." 'she' amended
from 'see'.

Page 489: