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But Fanny knew him, knew the peculiar obstinate limitedness of him, that would nearly send her mad.

From England, My England by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Such apprehension, however, still has the immanent limitedness of the national spirit.

From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Yet, since it is your request; since, considering the limitedness of human faculties, some error may possibly lurk in those appearances which I have witnessed, I will briefly relate what I know.

From Wieland: or, the Transformation, an American Tale by Brown, Charles Brockden

It is not his distortion of nature, as pre-Raphaelite limitedness glibly asserts, but his carelessness of her prodigious potentialities, that marks one side of his colossal accomplishment.

From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by Brownell, W. C. (William Crary)

His poetry is religious without the weakness, or at any rate the limitedness, which mars so much religious verse.

From The Age of Tennyson by Walker, Hugh