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... confidered , fhows itself to be twofold . Wisdom is not only directly a means to virtue ; it is alfo directly a means to happiness . The man of enlightened understand- ing and perfevering ardour , has many fources of enjoyment which the ...
... confidered , fhows itself to be twofold . Wisdom is not only directly a means to virtue ; it is alfo directly a means to happiness . The man of enlightened understand- ing and perfevering ardour , has many fources of enjoyment which the ...
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... confidered , of very inferior va- lue . Many of those things which we learn in our youth , it is neceffary , if we would well un- derftand , that we fhould learn over again in our riper years . Many things that , in the dark and ...
... confidered , of very inferior va- lue . Many of those things which we learn in our youth , it is neceffary , if we would well un- derftand , that we fhould learn over again in our riper years . Many things that , in the dark and ...
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... confidered as a pro- pofition too obvious for controverfy , that it was born and could not be infufed . This is however by no means obvious . That fome differences are born with children cannot reasonably be denied . But to what do ...
... confidered as a pro- pofition too obvious for controverfy , that it was born and could not be infufed . This is however by no means obvious . That fome differences are born with children cannot reasonably be denied . But to what do ...
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... confidered , is calculated to exprefs . Inftinct is a general name for that fpecies of actions in the animal world , that does not fall under any feries of intellectual proceffes with which we are acquainted . . Innumerable events are ...
... confidered , is calculated to exprefs . Inftinct is a general name for that fpecies of actions in the animal world , that does not fall under any feries of intellectual proceffes with which we are acquainted . . Innumerable events are ...
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... confidered their reco- very as the most important task in which they could be engaged ; scholars travelled without intermiffion , drawn from country to country by the faintest hope of encountering a claffical ma- nufcript ; and the ...
... confidered their reco- very as the most important task in which they could be engaged ; scholars travelled without intermiffion , drawn from country to country by the faintest hope of encountering a claffical ma- nufcript ; and the ...
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