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Page 49
... curiosity after natural history , and increase your fortune by benefiting mankind . I heard him , Mr. Rambler , with pity , and , as there was no prospect of elevat- ing a mind formed to grovel , suffered him to please himself with ...
... curiosity after natural history , and increase your fortune by benefiting mankind . I heard him , Mr. Rambler , with pity , and , as there was no prospect of elevat- ing a mind formed to grovel , suffered him to please himself with ...
Page 167
... curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure ; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by in- struction . Curiosity is the thirst of the soul ; it in- flames and torments us , and makes us taste every thing ...
... curiosity rather frees us from uneasiness than confers pleasure ; we are more pained by ignorance than delighted by in- struction . Curiosity is the thirst of the soul ; it in- flames and torments us , and makes us taste every thing ...
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... curiosity may be equally destroyed by less formidable enemies ; it may be dissipated in trifles , or congealed by indolence . ' The sportsman and the man of dress have their heads filled with a fox or a horse race , a feather or a ball ...
... curiosity may be equally destroyed by less formidable enemies ; it may be dissipated in trifles , or congealed by indolence . ' The sportsman and the man of dress have their heads filled with a fox or a horse race , a feather or a ball ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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