prepossession
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It is owing to a prepossession that people say that genius must die early; I think that from the thirtieth to the thirty-fourth year has been indicated as the most dangerous period for genius.
From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine
My own prepossession is still in favor of Alberti.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by John Addington Symonds
Should you, therefore, behold another with the eye of prepossession, at least, regard Eliza as a sister, and give her a portion accordingly.
From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Sophia Reeve
It is organically related to the mystical prepossession of the author's manner of thinking.
From Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy by Otto Heller
This prepossession I afterward found confirmed, not only by her own share in the conversation, but by its effect on myself; I always feel that our intercourse unfolds, not only her powers, but my own.
From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by Hannah More
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"Common Sense," Vocabulary from the pamphlet
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Society and Solitude
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