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Page 185
... lost in successive compilations as new advances are made , and former observations become more familiar . Others spend their lives in remarks on language , or explanations of antiquities , and only afford materials for lexico- graphers ...
... lost in successive compilations as new advances are made , and former observations become more familiar . Others spend their lives in remarks on language , or explanations of antiquities , and only afford materials for lexico- graphers ...
Page 193
... lost in a rotation of petty cares , in a constant recurrence of the same employments ; many of our provisions for ease or happiness are always exhausted by the present day ; and a great part of our existence serves no other purpose than ...
... lost in a rotation of petty cares , in a constant recurrence of the same employments ; many of our provisions for ease or happiness are always exhausted by the present day ; and a great part of our existence serves no other purpose than ...
Page 333
... lost that which may indeed sometimes contribute to happiness , but to which happiness is by no means inseparably an- nexed . You have lost what the greater number of the human race never have possessed ; what those on whom it is ...
... lost that which may indeed sometimes contribute to happiness , but to which happiness is by no means inseparably an- nexed . You have lost what the greater number of the human race never have possessed ; what those on whom it is ...
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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