The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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... confift principally in in- formation . Is it to be feared that a man should know too much for his happiness ? Knowledge for the most part confifts in added means of pleasure B 4 pleasure or enjoyment , and added difcernment to felect ...
... confift principally in in- formation . Is it to be feared that a man should know too much for his happiness ? Knowledge for the most part confifts in added means of pleasure B 4 pleasure or enjoyment , and added difcernment to felect ...
Page 31
... confifts in the different ways in which their minds are em- ployed during the fame interval . They are obliged , let us fuppofe , to walk from Temple- Bar to Hyde - Park - Corner . The dull man goes ftraight forward ; he has fo many ...
... confifts in the different ways in which their minds are em- ployed during the fame interval . They are obliged , let us fuppofe , to walk from Temple- Bar to Hyde - Park - Corner . The dull man goes ftraight forward ; he has fo many ...
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... confifts in petty courtefies , rather than in the tranquil grandeur of an elevated mind . It is by turning to Fabricius , and men like Fabri- cius , that we are brought to recollect what human nature is . Left to ourselves , we are apt ...
... confifts in petty courtefies , rather than in the tranquil grandeur of an elevated mind . It is by turning to Fabricius , and men like Fabri- cius , that we are brought to recollect what human nature is . Left to ourselves , we are apt ...
Page 114
... confifts . No one would gain attention from a reasonable man , who should offer to advance a word against it . , But gaiety muft probably in the comparison , yield to seriousnefs . The world in which we are engaged , is after all a ...
... confifts . No one would gain attention from a reasonable man , who should offer to advance a word against it . , But gaiety muft probably in the comparison , yield to seriousnefs . The world in which we are engaged , is after all a ...
Page 152
... confifts , are fcattered wide . Every thing is unarranged and ' rude . A A feeble mind is not greatly liable to excefs . A powerful mind , when it has not yet effayed its powers , and poifed its wings , is the feat , fome- times of ...
... confifts , are fcattered wide . Every thing is unarranged and ' rude . A A feeble mind is not greatly liable to excefs . A powerful mind , when it has not yet effayed its powers , and poifed its wings , is the feat , fome- times of ...
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