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No reading or study had contributed to disenchant the fairy land around him .
Every thing furnished him with an opportunity of mirth ; and though some thought
him , from his insensibility , a fool , he was such an ideot , as philosophers should
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No reading or study had contributed to disenchant the fairy land around him .
Every thing furnished him with an opportunity of mirth ; and though some thought
him , from his insensibility , a fool , he was such an ideot , as philosophers should
...
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... to this great branch of knowledge , so worthy i of our curiosity , and so
necessary to the uses of life ; but not in such a degree as to throw you into
absence : mendeavour to be always recollected , whatever are your studies . If I
was young ...
... to this great branch of knowledge , so worthy i of our curiosity , and so
necessary to the uses of life ; but not in such a degree as to throw you into
absence : mendeavour to be always recollected , whatever are your studies . If I
was young ...
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The greater number of modern Philosophers reason inconclusively , only
because they are unacquainted with Geometry . They mistake sophisms for truths
; and if they lay down just principles , they deduce false conclusions from them . .
Study ...
The greater number of modern Philosophers reason inconclusively , only
because they are unacquainted with Geometry . They mistake sophisms for truths
; and if they lay down just principles , they deduce false conclusions from them . .
Study ...
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| Title | Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young, Issue 10 Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young |
| Publisher | G. Nicholson, 1796 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 20 pages |
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