The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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Page 81
... pafs over dif- ficulties , and neglect effèntial preliminaries ; ; but then the nature of the thing would speedily recal them , and induce them to return to exa- mine the tracts which before had been over- looked . For this purpose it ...
... pafs over dif- ficulties , and neglect effèntial preliminaries ; ; but then the nature of the thing would speedily recal them , and induce them to return to exa- mine the tracts which before had been over- looked . For this purpose it ...
Page 121
... pafs over without ruffling a fibre of his heart ; but his private contemplations caufe his heart to leap , and his blood to boil . When he returns to them , he becomes a new creature . He cafts the flough of fedentary confinement ; he ...
... pafs over without ruffling a fibre of his heart ; but his private contemplations caufe his heart to leap , and his blood to boil . When he returns to them , he becomes a new creature . He cafts the flough of fedentary confinement ; he ...
Page 167
... pafs through one of its repetitions under the preffure of great difadvantages . But , when we recollect that we appear but once upon this theatre , that our life is fhort and precarious , that we rife out of nothing , and that , when we ...
... pafs through one of its repetitions under the preffure of great difadvantages . But , when we recollect that we appear but once upon this theatre , that our life is fhort and precarious , that we rife out of nothing , and that , when we ...
Page 205
... pafs them with as little consciousness of true equality , and as little fenfe of unreftrained sympathy , as they pass the man- darins upon their chimney - pieces . The fortune of the rich man is expended be- tween two different claffes ...
... pafs them with as little consciousness of true equality , and as little fenfe of unreftrained sympathy , as they pass the man- darins upon their chimney - pieces . The fortune of the rich man is expended be- tween two different claffes ...
Page 206
... pafs from one voluntary labour to another , and refort , as their fancy prompts , to every fplendid and coftly amufement . The wealth of the fervant amounts perhaps to ten or fifteen pounds a year ; and it is not un- frequent to hear ...
... pafs from one voluntary labour to another , and refort , as their fancy prompts , to every fplendid and coftly amufement . The wealth of the fervant amounts perhaps to ten or fifteen pounds a year ; and it is not un- frequent to hear ...
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