Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 páginas |
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... in- ventions of human wit , none is more admirable and useful than writing , by means whereof a man may copy out his very thoughts , utter his mind without A opening his mouth , and signify his pleasure at a MISCELLANIES. ...
... in- ventions of human wit , none is more admirable and useful than writing , by means whereof a man may copy out his very thoughts , utter his mind without A opening his mouth , and signify his pleasure at a MISCELLANIES. ...
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... mind . Corsair . Experience proves , that to indulge in what is fallacious , though it may please the imagination , vitiates the taste , indisposes the mind to a pursuit after truth , and impairs the judgment by giving it a false bias ...
... mind . Corsair . Experience proves , that to indulge in what is fallacious , though it may please the imagination , vitiates the taste , indisposes the mind to a pursuit after truth , and impairs the judgment by giving it a false bias ...
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... mind could tell their numbers , much less their value ? Having these thoughts I reply the sea will be emptied drop by drop , the universe filled grain by grain , the numbers written in the heavens will come to an Daily Studies for the ...
... mind could tell their numbers , much less their value ? Having these thoughts I reply the sea will be emptied drop by drop , the universe filled grain by grain , the numbers written in the heavens will come to an Daily Studies for the ...
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... minds . Stanhope's Thomas a Kempis . The duties of religion sincerely and regularly per- formed , will always be sufficient to exalt the mean- est , and to exercise the highest understanding . That mind will never be vacant which is ...
... minds . Stanhope's Thomas a Kempis . The duties of religion sincerely and regularly per- formed , will always be sufficient to exalt the mean- est , and to exercise the highest understanding . That mind will never be vacant which is ...
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... minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way . Every fear , every hope will forward it ; and then , they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs , will appear rather to ...
... minds of men will be fitted to it ; the general opinions and feelings will draw that way . Every fear , every hope will forward it ; and then , they who persist in opposing this mighty current in human affairs , will appear rather to ...
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