The Rambler, Volume 2W. Locke ... ; and C. Lowndes, 1791 - English literature |
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Page 60
... fuch friends are to be fhown rather as prodigies than examples , and it is no more proper to regu- late our conduct by fuch inftances , than to leap a precipice , becaufe fome have fallen from it and efcaped with life . It cannot but be ...
... fuch friends are to be fhown rather as prodigies than examples , and it is no more proper to regu- late our conduct by fuch inftances , than to leap a precipice , becaufe fome have fallen from it and efcaped with life . It cannot but be ...
Page 264
... fuch amazing perfection the whole art and mystery of paffing day after day , week after week , and year after year , without the heavy affiftance of any one thing that formal crea- tures are pleased to call useful and neceffary . In ...
... fuch amazing perfection the whole art and mystery of paffing day after day , week after week , and year after year , without the heavy affiftance of any one thing that formal crea- tures are pleased to call useful and neceffary . In ...
Page 267
... fuch ftrange and primitive notions , or laid under fuch unmerciful reftraints : all which may , in a great measure , be prevented by the prevalence of the good - humoured fashion that I would have you recommend . For when the lower kind ...
... fuch ftrange and primitive notions , or laid under fuch unmerciful reftraints : all which may , in a great measure , be prevented by the prevalence of the good - humoured fashion that I would have you recommend . For when the lower kind ...
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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