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Page 126
... reason and accustomed myself to inquire not after proofs but objections , I had perplexed truth with falsehood ... reason or mo- tives of action . " Such is the hazard of repressing the first per- ceptions of truth , of spreading for ...
... reason and accustomed myself to inquire not after proofs but objections , I had perplexed truth with falsehood ... reason or mo- tives of action . " Such is the hazard of repressing the first per- ceptions of truth , of spreading for ...
Page 129
... reason many arts of instruction have been invented , by which the reluctance against truth may be overcome ; and , as physic is given to chil- dren in confections , precepts have been hidden un- der a thousand appearances , that mankind ...
... reason many arts of instruction have been invented , by which the reluctance against truth may be overcome ; and , as physic is given to chil- dren in confections , precepts have been hidden un- der a thousand appearances , that mankind ...
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Reason , indeed , was always at hand to steer the passengers through a narrow outlet by which they might escape ; but very few could , by her entreaties or remonstrances , be induced to put the rudder into her hand , without stipulating ...
Reason , indeed , was always at hand to steer the passengers through a narrow outlet by which they might escape ; but very few could , by her entreaties or remonstrances , be induced to put the rudder into her hand , without stipulating ...
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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