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Page 61
... to go along with it , and who have had some insight into these studies , have very often found advantages from them sufficient to reward the pains they were at in acquiring them and whatever MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . 61.
... to go along with it , and who have had some insight into these studies , have very often found advantages from them sufficient to reward the pains they were at in acquiring them and whatever MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL . 61.
Page 62
... advantage and it is remarkable , that all men being capable by nature to reason and understand the sciences ; the less acute , by studying this , though useless to them in every other respect , will gain this advantage ; that their ...
... advantage and it is remarkable , that all men being capable by nature to reason and understand the sciences ; the less acute , by studying this , though useless to them in every other respect , will gain this advantage ; that their ...
Page 84
... advantage there is in having money . For six pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds , provided you are a man of known prudence and honesty . He that spends a groat a day idly , spends idly above six pounds a year ...
... advantage there is in having money . For six pounds a year you may have the use of one hundred pounds , provided you are a man of known prudence and honesty . He that spends a groat a day idly , spends idly above six pounds a year ...
Page 86
... advantage . Remember this saying , " the good paymaster is lord of another man's purse . " He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises , may , at any time , and on any occasion , raise all the money his ...
... advantage . Remember this saying , " the good paymaster is lord of another man's purse . " He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the time he promises , may , at any time , and on any occasion , raise all the money his ...
Page 99
... advantage of it to that book . You mention your being in your seventy - eighth year . I am in my seventy - ninth . We are grown old together . It is now more than sixty years since I left Boston ; but I remember well both your father ...
... advantage of it to that book . You mention your being in your seventy - eighth year . I am in my seventy - ninth . We are grown old together . It is now more than sixty years since I left Boston ; but I remember well both your father ...
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