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The Arts and Sciences Abridged: With a Selection of Pieces, from Celebrated ... - Page 149
by Charles Peirce - 1811 - 216 pages
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The Spectator, Volume 2

1729 - 354 pages
...perpetual Progrefs of Improvements, and travelling on from Perfection to Perfection, after having juft looked abroad into the Works of its Creator, and made a few Discoveries of his infinite Goodnefs, Wifdomand Power, muft perilh at her firft fetting out, and in the very beginning of her Enquiries...
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The Spectator, Volume 2

1729 - 342 pages
...perpetual Progrefs of Improvements, and travelling on from Perfection to Perfection, after having juft looked abroad into the Works of its Creator, and made a few Difcoveries of his infinite Goodnefs, Wifdorn and Power, muft perifh at her firft fetting out, and...
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The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English ...

William Enfield - 1785 - 460 pages
...perpetual progrefs of improvements, and travelling on from perfeftion to perfection, after having juft looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few difcoveries of his infinite goodnefs, wifdom and power, muft perim at her firfc fetting out, and in...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1789 - 416 pages
...perpetual progrefs of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having juft looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few difcoveries of His infinite gooduefs, wifdom, and power, muftperifh-at her firft fctting out, and in...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected ...

Vicesimus Knox - 1790 - 1058 pages
...perpetual progrefs of~improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having juft looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few difcoveries of his infinite goodnefs, wifdom, and power, muft periili rt hen firft fetting out, and...
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The Prose epitome; or, Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining ...

1792 - 494 pages
...perpetual progrefs of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having juft looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few difcoveries of his infinite poodnefs, wifdom, and power, muil perilh at her firft fctting out, and...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1799 - 408 pages
...perpetual progrefs of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfection, after having juft looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few difcoveries of his infinite goodnefs, wifdom, and power, muft perifh at her firft fetting out, and...
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Essays on suicide and the immortality of the soul. With remarks by the ...

David Hume - 1799 - 142 pages
...perpetual progrefs of improvements, and travelling on from perfection , to perfection , after having juft looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few difcoveries of his infinite goodnefs, wifdom, and power, muft perifli at her hrft fetting out, and...
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Elements of Elocution: In which the Principles of Reading and Speaking are ...

John Walker - 1799 - 438 pages
...perpetual progrefs of improvements, and travelling on from perfection to perfedion, after having juft looked abroad into the works of its Creator, and made a few dilcoveries of his infinite goodnefs, •wifdom, and power, muft perifh at her firft fetting out, and...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 7

British essayists - 1802 - 342 pages
...insensibly,and drop at once into a state of annihilation. But can we believe a thinking being, that is in a perpetual progress of improvements, and travelling...power, must perish at her first setting out, and in the beginning of her inquiries ? A man, considered in his present state, seems only sent into the world...
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