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to have difficulty — such as to not know what to do or to move awkwardly on unsure footing
- And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.Chapter 2 (76% in)
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