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... better than one which is overcharged with fuperfluous Ideas ; and perhaps this Vacuity is one Rea- son why the Memory is better in Youth than in Age . Be this , however , as it will , it is at all Ages much easier to learn to remember ...
... better than one which is overcharged with fuperfluous Ideas ; and perhaps this Vacuity is one Rea- son why the Memory is better in Youth than in Age . Be this , however , as it will , it is at all Ages much easier to learn to remember ...
Page 286
... better than to the Un- derftanding ; when we would perfuade People into a Belief of what is problema- tical or falfe , we must addrefs ourselves to their Paffions ; which cannot be done better than by confounding their Under- ftandings ...
... better than to the Un- derftanding ; when we would perfuade People into a Belief of what is problema- tical or falfe , we must addrefs ourselves to their Paffions ; which cannot be done better than by confounding their Under- ftandings ...
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... better Part of Valour is Difcretion ; in the which better Part , I have faved my Life . I am afraid of this Gunpowder Percy , though he be dead . How if he shou'd counterfeit ico , and rife ? I am afraid he would prove the better ...
... better Part of Valour is Difcretion ; in the which better Part , I have faved my Life . I am afraid of this Gunpowder Percy , though he be dead . How if he shou'd counterfeit ico , and rife ? I am afraid he would prove the better ...
Contents
Obfervations on the Defects and Perfection | 1 |
The Analysis of SPEECH | 19 |
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