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... death produces , in those who are not wholly without the power and use of reflection ; for by far the greater part it is wholly unregarded , their friends and their enemies fink into the grave without raifing any uncommon emotion , or ...
... death produces , in those who are not wholly without the power and use of reflection ; for by far the greater part it is wholly unregarded , their friends and their enemies fink into the grave without raifing any uncommon emotion , or ...
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... death of an emulator or competitor produces . Whoever had qualities to alarm our jealoufy , had excellence to deferve our fondnefs ; and to what- ever ardour of oppofition intereft may inflame us , no man ever outlived an enemy , whom ...
... death of an emulator or competitor produces . Whoever had qualities to alarm our jealoufy , had excellence to deferve our fondnefs ; and to what- ever ardour of oppofition intereft may inflame us , no man ever outlived an enemy , whom ...
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... death . How , ' fays he , " can death be fudden to a being who al- ways knew that he must die , and that the time " of his death was uncertain ? " 16 Since bufinefs and gaiety are always drawing our attention away from a future ftate ...
... death . How , ' fays he , " can death be fudden to a being who al- ways knew that he must die , and that the time " of his death was uncertain ? " 16 Since bufinefs and gaiety are always drawing our attention away from a future ftate ...
Contents
A deathbed the true fchool of wiſdom The effects | 54 |
The dignity and uſefulneſs of biography | 60 |
Paffion not to be eradicated | 66 |
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