 | 1794 - 524 pages
...wifdom and virtue. And I not only exhort, but earnestly intreat you to perfevere in this courfe.' • Give me leave, however, to caution you not to imitate thofe pretended philofophers, who are more folic'tous to attraJr. the notice of the world, than to make a progreis in wifdom ; nor to affeil any... | |
 | 1794 - 512 pages
...wifdom and virtue. And I not only exhort, but earneftly intreat you to perfevere in this courle. " Give me leave, however, to caution you not to imitate...attract the notice of the world, than to make a progrefs i» wifdom ; nor to affect any thing fingular in your drefs, or in your manner of life. Avoid that... | |
 | 1794 - 622 pages
...I not only exhort, but «arneftly intreat ^ou to perfevete in this courfe. Give me leave, nowever, to caution you not to imitate thofe pretended philofophers, who are more felicitous to attract the notice of the world, than to make a progrefs in wifdom ; nor to iffeft any... | |
 | 1792 - 614 pages
...however, to caution you not to imitate thofe pretended philofopheri, who are more felicitous to attraft the notice of the world, than to make a progrefs in wifdom; nor to affeft any thing fingular in your drcfs, or in your manner of life. Avoid thut prepofterous ambition... | |
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... any thing fingular in your drefs, or in your manner of life. Avoid that prepofterous ambition of gaining applaufe, by your uncouth appearance, your hair uncombed, and your beard neglefted ; nor be always declaiming againft the ufe of plate, of foft... 