I have confirmed the behavior described by you. In addition, I confirmed that in the code you specified following the setVisible method, the visibility of the block is indeed False.
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self.paragraphs = ["First paragraph","Second Paragraph","Third Paragraph",]
self.display_text = '\n'.join(self.paragraphs[1:])
self.textedit.setText(self.display_text)