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Page 31
... effect that we are seldom alarmed unless some close connexion is broken , some scheme frustrated , or some hope defeated . Many , therefore , seem to pass on from youth to decrepitude without any reflection on the end of life , because ...
... effect that we are seldom alarmed unless some close connexion is broken , some scheme frustrated , or some hope defeated . Many , therefore , seem to pass on from youth to decrepitude without any reflection on the end of life , because ...
Page 156
... effects of vanity ; since I always employed my influence on the side of virtue , and never sacrificed my un ... effect . Demochares being called by his affairs into the country , imagined that he should increase his popularity ...
... effects of vanity ; since I always employed my influence on the side of virtue , and never sacrificed my un ... effect . Demochares being called by his affairs into the country , imagined that he should increase his popularity ...
Page 349
... effect of ignorance has been often observed . The awful stillness of attention , with which the mind is overspread at the first view of an unexpected effect , ceases when we have lei- sure to disentangle complications and investigate ...
... effect of ignorance has been often observed . The awful stillness of attention , with which the mind is overspread at the first view of an unexpected effect , ceases when we have lei- sure to disentangle complications and investigate ...
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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