The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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... defires that thofe who fhall be active in promoting the caufe of reform , may be found amiable in their perfonal manners , and even attached to the cultiva- tion of miscellaneous enquiries . He believes that this will afford the beft ...
... defires that thofe who fhall be active in promoting the caufe of reform , may be found amiable in their perfonal manners , and even attached to the cultiva- tion of miscellaneous enquiries . He believes that this will afford the beft ...
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... defire exifts ; and the means of attainment are clearly and skilfully pointed out , where yet the accomplishment re- mains finally unattained ? Give but fufficient motive , and you have given every thing Whe- ther the object be to fhoot ...
... defire exifts ; and the means of attainment are clearly and skilfully pointed out , where yet the accomplishment re- mains finally unattained ? Give but fufficient motive , and you have given every thing Whe- ther the object be to fhoot ...
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... defire no more . Talents are often rather an injury than a benefit to their poffeffor . They are a fort of ignis fatuus leading us aftray ; a fever of the mind incom- patible with the fober dictates of prudence . They tempt a man to the ...
... defire no more . Talents are often rather an injury than a benefit to their poffeffor . They are a fort of ignis fatuus leading us aftray ; a fever of the mind incom- patible with the fober dictates of prudence . They tempt a man to the ...
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... defire to produce . The production grows more and more difficult , till the effecting it becomes a task too great for human human ftrength , and exceeds perhaps the powers and contrivance Effay III . 15 Of the Sources of Genius .
... defire to produce . The production grows more and more difficult , till the effecting it becomes a task too great for human human ftrength , and exceeds perhaps the powers and contrivance Effay III . 15 Of the Sources of Genius .
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... defire ; and he may poffefs himself of every species of wifdom to judge , and power to perform . The chief point of difference between the man of talent and the man without , confifts in the different ways in which their minds are em ...
... defire ; and he may poffefs himself of every species of wifdom to judge , and power to perform . The chief point of difference between the man of talent and the man without , confifts in the different ways in which their minds are em ...
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