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Our caution increasing as our years increase , fear becomes at last the prevailing
passion of the mind ; and the small remainder of life is taken up in useless efforts
to keep off our end , or provide for a continued existence . Strange contradiction ...
Our caution increasing as our years increase , fear becomes at last the prevailing
passion of the mind ; and the small remainder of life is taken up in useless efforts
to keep off our end , or provide for a continued existence . Strange contradiction ...
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Had this self - deluded man been apprized , that existence grows more desirable
to us the longer we exist , he would then have faced old age without shrinking ;
he would have boldly dared to to live , and served that society , by his future ...
Had this self - deluded man been apprized , that existence grows more desirable
to us the longer we exist , he would then have faced old age without shrinking ;
he would have boldly dared to to live , and served that society , by his future ...
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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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