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... muft refolve to avoid it ; and it must be avoided generally by the fcience of fparing . For , though in every age there are fome , who by bold adven- tures , or by favourable accidents , rife fuddenly to riches , yet it is dangerous to ...
... muft refolve to avoid it ; and it must be avoided generally by the fcience of fparing . For , though in every age there are fome , who by bold adven- tures , or by favourable accidents , rife fuddenly to riches , yet it is dangerous to ...
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... muft , at least , have made the lower conditions lefs grating and wearifome , and has confequently contributed to the general fecurity of life , by hindering that fraud and violence , rapine and circumvention , which must have been ...
... muft , at least , have made the lower conditions lefs grating and wearifome , and has confequently contributed to the general fecurity of life , by hindering that fraud and violence , rapine and circumvention , which must have been ...
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... muft proceed from frequent hardships ; and though it is evident , that not more than one age or people can deferve the cenfure of being more averfe from learning than any other , yet , at all times , knowledge must have encountered im ...
... muft proceed from frequent hardships ; and though it is evident , that not more than one age or people can deferve the cenfure of being more averfe from learning than any other , yet , at all times , knowledge must have encountered im ...
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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