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Page 193
... human- ity , meets the petition half way , and consents to a request with a countenance which proclaims the ... humanity and good - na- ture which accompanies it . It is a letter of Pli ny , which I shall here translate , because the ac ...
... human- ity , meets the petition half way , and consents to a request with a countenance which proclaims the ... humanity and good - na- ture which accompanies it . It is a letter of Pli ny , which I shall here translate , because the ac ...
Page 198
... human wisdom . The race is not always to the swift , nor the bat- tle to the strong . Nothing less than an infinite wisdom can have an absolute command over for- tune ; the highest degree of it , which man can possess , is by no means ...
... human wisdom . The race is not always to the swift , nor the bat- tle to the strong . Nothing less than an infinite wisdom can have an absolute command over for- tune ; the highest degree of it , which man can possess , is by no means ...
Page 199
... human wisdom . The race is not always to the swift , nor the bat- tle to the strong . ' Nothing less than an infinite wisdom can have an absolute command over for- tune ; the highest degree of it , which man can possess , is by no means ...
... human wisdom . The race is not always to the swift , nor the bat- tle to the strong . ' Nothing less than an infinite wisdom can have an absolute command over for- tune ; the highest degree of it , which man can possess , is by no means ...
Contents
VOL V | 25 |
LETTER from a Coquette to a new mar | 254 |
Letters from an old Bachelorfrom Lovers | 260 |
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