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... acquaintance with it . I would not chuse , ' says a French philosopher , ' to see an old post pulled up , with which I had been ' long acquainted . ' A mind long habituated to a cer tain set of objects , insensibly becomes fond of ...
... acquaintance with it . I would not chuse , ' says a French philosopher , ' to see an old post pulled up , with which I had been ' long acquainted . ' A mind long habituated to a cer tain set of objects , insensibly becomes fond of ...
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... acquaintance ; the companion , as yet unexhausted , is at once instructive and amusing ; its company pleases ; yet for all this it is but little regarded . To us , who are declined in years , life appears like an old friend ; its jests ...
... acquaintance ; the companion , as yet unexhausted , is at once instructive and amusing ; its company pleases ; yet for all this it is but little regarded . To us , who are declined in years , life appears like an old friend ; its jests ...
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... acquainted with Geometry . They mistake sophisms for truths ; and if they lay down just principles , they deduce false conclusions from them . Study alone will not make a learned man , nor a knowledge of the sciences a Philosopher . But ...
... acquainted with Geometry . They mistake sophisms for truths ; and if they lay down just principles , they deduce false conclusions from them . Study alone will not make a learned man , nor a knowledge of the sciences a Philosopher . But ...
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Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young, Issue 10 Hugh Blair,Rollin,Thomas Percival No preview available - 2016 |
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Almanack animal without feathers animating some happier ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD appears ard says aspiring disposition auction beauteous feathers burst the prison callow infancy Chinvang creditor diligence disposition and unbounded distress dress EDWARD PERCIVAL ENDEARED BY AGE ENJOYMENTS OF EARLY EPITAPH Father Abraham fledged pinions folly fool FRENCH OF GANGANELLI friends frugality GOLDSMITH grated prison happier form happy Elysium harmonious sorrow hath health to enjoy heap of beauteous heard to petition hope for retribution hope of animating humour idle indignant soul burst innocence can hope keep left a lifeless legged animal lifeless heap live Mathematician Mathematics mour ness never oft-removed person of unblemished philosophy pitiless hands pleasure Poor Dick Poor Rich Poor Richard says pride purse RICHARD ACANTHUS RICHARD SAUNDERS rough and pitiless run in debt Sloth sure thee thing thou tired with fruitless unalienable rights undoubted charter view those fields violent clamours WEALTH