Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... hope is the only moralist that has any weight with the young . There are many things on which even a coxcomb will receive in- struction with gratitude , as for instance a know- ledge of the languages , or of the mathematics , because ...
... hope is the only moralist that has any weight with the young . There are many things on which even a coxcomb will receive in- struction with gratitude , as for instance a know- ledge of the languages , or of the mathematics , because ...
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... hope that what little encouragement I have met with , may stimulate those to attempt something better , who are deeply conversant , not only with the living , but with the dead , not only with books , but with men , not only with the ...
... hope that what little encouragement I have met with , may stimulate those to attempt something better , who are deeply conversant , not only with the living , but with the dead , not only with books , but with men , not only with the ...
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... hope I may be per- mitted to offer a few remarks on this subject , in a note . In the first volume I observed , that with respect to the style I proposed to adopt in these pages , I should attempt to make it vary with the subject . I ...
... hope I may be per- mitted to offer a few remarks on this subject , in a note . In the first volume I observed , that with respect to the style I proposed to adopt in these pages , I should attempt to make it vary with the subject . I ...
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... hope of the future , who that have any aspirings of a high and in- tellectual nature about them , could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage ? as to the common and the sensual herd , who would be glad ...
... hope of the future , who that have any aspirings of a high and in- tellectual nature about them , could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage ? as to the common and the sensual herd , who would be glad ...
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... hope they may get more time to squander . Thus the diurnals give us ten thousand re- cipes to live long , for one to live well , and hence the use of ing out of the Revolution . He wished to purchase a few of the busts of those ...
... hope they may get more time to squander . Thus the diurnals give us ten thousand re- cipes to live long , for one to live well , and hence the use of ing out of the Revolution . He wished to purchase a few of the busts of those ...
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