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... mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fenfe of his condition . The facrifice of the future to the prefent , whether it be a folly or a fault , fault , is feldom unpunished , and Swift foon found AN ACCOUNT OF THE.
... mind with pleafing images , and for a while fufpend the fenfe of his condition . The facrifice of the future to the prefent , whether it be a folly or a fault , fault , is feldom unpunished , and Swift foon found AN ACCOUNT OF THE.
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... mind fo long continued , 7. R. 5 J. great knowledge muft neceffarily have been acquired . He commenced thefe ftudies at the univer- fity in Dublin , where he continued them three years , and during this time he alfo drew the first ...
... mind fo long continued , 7. R. 5 J. great knowledge muft neceffarily have been acquired . He commenced thefe ftudies at the univer- fity in Dublin , where he continued them three years , and during this time he alfo drew the first ...
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... mind very early upon an ecclefiaftical life , and it is therefore probable that upon declining this offer he obtained a promife of preferment in the church , for in a letter to his uncle William , dated D. S. 56 . 1692 , he fays , ' I ...
... mind very early upon an ecclefiaftical life , and it is therefore probable that upon declining this offer he obtained a promife of preferment in the church , for in a letter to his uncle William , dated D. S. 56 . 1692 , he fays , ' I ...
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... mind . Sketch , Sketch , But he was still indefatigable in his studies , and to prevent the lofs of health in the acquifition of know- continued his vifits after the re- moval to Maorpark . [ D. S. 108. ] a It must have been after ...
... mind . Sketch , Sketch , But he was still indefatigable in his studies , and to prevent the lofs of health in the acquifition of know- continued his vifits after the re- moval to Maorpark . [ D. S. 108. ] a It must have been after ...
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... mind he used fre- quently to declare ; he hoped , he faid , that by dili- gent and conftant application he fhould fo far excel that the fexton might fometimes be asked on a Sun- day morning , Pray does the doctor preach to - day ' ? and ...
... mind he used fre- quently to declare ; he hoped , he faid , that by dili- gent and conftant application he fhould fo far excel that the fexton might fometimes be asked on a Sun- day morning , Pray does the doctor preach to - day ' ? and ...
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Page 264 - So that, in short, the question comes all to this; whether is the nobler being of the two, that which, by a lazy contemplation of four inches round, by an overweening pride...
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Page 267 - As for us the ancients, we are content, with the bee, to pretend to nothing of our own beyond our wings and our voice : that is to say, our flights and our language.
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