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... expect , at least , that you will diveft yourself of partiality , and that whatever your age or folemnity may be , you will not , with the dotard's infolence , pronounce me ignorant and foolish , perverfe and refractory , only because ...
... expect , at least , that you will diveft yourself of partiality , and that whatever your age or folemnity may be , you will not , with the dotard's infolence , pronounce me ignorant and foolish , perverfe and refractory , only because ...
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... expect little intelligence ; for the in- cidents which gave excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind , fuch as foon escape the memory , and are rarely tranfmitted by tradi- tion . We know how few can , pourtray a ...
... expect little intelligence ; for the in- cidents which gave excellence to biography are of a volatile and evanefcent kind , fuch as foon escape the memory , and are rarely tranfmitted by tradi- tion . We know how few can , pourtray a ...
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... expect , yet in thofe me- ditations which we indulge by choice , and which are not forced upon the mind by neceflity , we have always always the art of fixing our regard upon the more 54 No. 63 . Inconftancy A death-bed the true fchool ...
... expect , yet in thofe me- ditations which we indulge by choice , and which are not forced upon the mind by neceflity , we have always always the art of fixing our regard upon the more 54 No. 63 . Inconftancy A death-bed the true fchool ...
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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