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... have little to fay in their behalf , except this , that not one of them was compofed with any thoughts of being printed ; they have been haftily written , and carry the marks -- of it along with them . - This may be 5 PREFAC E.
... have little to fay in their behalf , except this , that not one of them was compofed with any thoughts of being printed ; they have been haftily written , and carry the marks -- of it along with them . - This may be 5 PREFAC E.
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... thoughts -'tis well if he has new language in three or four paffages , where he has neither the one nor the other , I have quoted the author I made free with . -There are fome other paffages , where I suspect I may have taken the fame ...
... thoughts -'tis well if he has new language in three or four paffages , where he has neither the one nor the other , I have quoted the author I made free with . -There are fome other paffages , where I suspect I may have taken the fame ...
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... thought no judges of the matter . So that ' tis no great wonder , if the greatest part of fuch reflections , however juft in themselves and founded on truth and a knowledge of the world , are found to leave little impreffion where the ...
... thought no judges of the matter . So that ' tis no great wonder , if the greatest part of fuch reflections , however juft in themselves and founded on truth and a knowledge of the world , are found to leave little impreffion where the ...
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... thoughts are gene- rally full of the mighty happiness which he is going to enter upon , from the free enjoyment of the pleafures in which he fees others of his age and fortune en- gaged . In confequence of this - take notice , how his ...
... thoughts are gene- rally full of the mighty happiness which he is going to enter upon , from the free enjoyment of the pleafures in which he fees others of his age and fortune en- gaged . In confequence of this - take notice , how his ...
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... thought by it , as if I was denying the reality of pleasures , or difputing the be- ing of them , any more than one would the reality of pain - yet I must observe on this head , that there is a plain dif tinction to be made betwixt ...
... thought by it , as if I was denying the reality of pleasures , or difputing the be- ing of them , any more than one would the reality of pain - yet I must observe on this head , that there is a plain dif tinction to be made betwixt ...
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Page 248 - Admonish a friend, it may be he hath not done it: and if he have done it, that he do it no more. Admonish thy friend, it may be he hath not said it: and if he have, that he speak it not again. Admonish a friend: for many times it is a slander, and believe not every tale.
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Page 70 - There were two men in one city; the one rich, and the other poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds: but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And there came a...
Page 81 - Try me, O God, and seek the ground of my heart ; prove me, and examine my thoughts. Look well if there be any way of wickedness in me ; and lead me in the way everlasting.