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... APPEAR ALREADY CROST ; AND , ERE HE STARTS , A THOUSAND STEPS ARE LOST . HAT the mind of man is never satisfied with the objects immedi- ately before it , but is always breaking away from the prefent moment , and lof- ing itself in ...
... APPEAR ALREADY CROST ; AND , ERE HE STARTS , A THOUSAND STEPS ARE LOST . HAT the mind of man is never satisfied with the objects immedi- ately before it , but is always breaking away from the prefent moment , and lof- ing itself in ...
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... appears , for many characters ought never to be drawn ; nor of a narrative , that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience , for that ob- fervation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more fre ...
... appears , for many characters ought never to be drawn ; nor of a narrative , that the train of events is agreeable to obfervation and experience , for that ob- fervation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more fre ...
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... appears requifite but quick fenfibility , and active imagination ; for , though not devoted to virtue or fcience , the man whofe faculties enable him to make ready comparifons of the prefent with the past , will find fuch a conftant ...
... appears requifite but quick fenfibility , and active imagination ; for , though not devoted to virtue or fcience , the man whofe faculties enable him to make ready comparifons of the prefent with the past , will find fuch a conftant ...
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... appears , upon a philofophical eftimate , that , fuppofing the mind , at any certain time , in an equipoife between the pleafures of this life and the hopes of futurity , prefent objects falling more frequently into the fcale would in ...
... appears , upon a philofophical eftimate , that , fuppofing the mind , at any certain time , in an equipoife between the pleafures of this life and the hopes of futurity , prefent objects falling more frequently into the fcale would in ...
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... appear at once in their full magnitude ; but the gradual growth of our own wickedness , endeared by inte- reft , and palliated by all the artifices of felf - deceit , gives us time to form dif- tinctions in our own favour , and reason ...
... appear at once in their full magnitude ; but the gradual growth of our own wickedness , endeared by inte- reft , and palliated by all the artifices of felf - deceit , gives us time to form dif- tinctions in our own favour , and reason ...
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