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... excellence to deferve our fondnefs ; and to what- ever ardour of oppofition intereft may inflame us , no man ever outlived an enemy , whom he did not then with to have made a friend . Those who are verfed in literary history know that ...
... excellence to deferve our fondnefs ; and to what- ever ardour of oppofition intereft may inflame us , no man ever outlived an enemy , whom he did not then with to have made a friend . Those who are verfed in literary history know that ...
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... excellence of one virtue to another , which has long furnished a fubject of difpute , to men whofe leifure fent them out into the intellectual world in fearch of em- ployment , and who have , perhaps , been fometimes withheld from the ...
... excellence of one virtue to another , which has long furnished a fubject of difpute , to men whofe leifure fent them out into the intellectual world in fearch of em- ployment , and who have , perhaps , been fometimes withheld from the ...
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... excellence , when higher excellence comes within our view . Much of the beauty of writing is of this kind ; and therefore Boileau justly remarks , that the books which have stood the test of time , and been admi- red through all the ...
... excellence , when higher excellence comes within our view . Much of the beauty of writing is of this kind ; and therefore Boileau justly remarks , that the books which have stood the test of time , and been admi- red through all the ...
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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