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Page 166
... fortune has a natural tendency to kindle pride , and that pride seldom fails to exert itself in contempt and insult ; and if this is often the effect of hereditary wealth , and of honours enjoyed only by the merits of others , it is ...
... fortune has a natural tendency to kindle pride , and that pride seldom fails to exert itself in contempt and insult ; and if this is often the effect of hereditary wealth , and of honours enjoyed only by the merits of others , it is ...
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... fortune , and flattered himself with advances to be made in science , as with riches , to be enjoyed in some distant period of his life . For the acquisition of knowledge he was indeed far better qualified than for that of riches ; for ...
... fortune , and flattered himself with advances to be made in science , as with riches , to be enjoyed in some distant period of his life . For the acquisition of knowledge he was indeed far better qualified than for that of riches ; for ...
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... fortune . This general care must be universally approved ; but it sometimes appeared in petty artifices of parsimony , such as the practice of writing his compositions on the back of letters , as may be seen in the remaining copy of the ...
... fortune . This general care must be universally approved ; but it sometimes appeared in petty artifices of parsimony , such as the practice of writing his compositions on the back of letters , as may be seen in the remaining copy of the ...
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From The Life of Abraham Cowley | 1 |
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