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These simple thoughts with so much plainness flow , Their sense - unletter ' d
infancy may know ; Yet to such height is all their plainness wrought , Wit may
admire , and learned pride be taught . Courteous Reader , I have heard , that
nothing ...
These simple thoughts with so much plainness flow , Their sense - unletter ' d
infancy may know ; Yet to such height is all their plainness wrought , Wit may
admire , and learned pride be taught . Courteous Reader , I have heard , that
nothing ...
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Those dangers which , in the vigour of youth , we had learned to despise ,
assume new ter . rors as we grow old . Our caution increasing as our years
increase , fear becomes at last the prevailing passion of the mind ; and the small
remainder ...
Those dangers which , in the vigour of youth , we had learned to despise ,
assume new ter . rors as we grow old . Our caution increasing as our years
increase , fear becomes at last the prevailing passion of the mind ; and the small
remainder ...
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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 we live in an age where
great ...
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 we live in an age where
great ...
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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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