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Page 38
... lefs of trouble and diffi- culty , of entanglement and perplexity , of danger and hazard in it ; it is the fhortelt and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a ftraight line , and will hold out and last longeft . 21. The arts ...
... lefs of trouble and diffi- culty , of entanglement and perplexity , of danger and hazard in it ; it is the fhortelt and nearest way to our end , carrying us thither in a ftraight line , and will hold out and last longeft . 21. The arts ...
Page 138
... lefs poverty , which made him rather chufe to reduce his manner of living to his prefent circumstances , than folicit his friends , in order to fupport the fhew of an eftate , when the fubftance was gone . 3. His wife , who was a woman ...
... lefs poverty , which made him rather chufe to reduce his manner of living to his prefent circumstances , than folicit his friends , in order to fupport the fhew of an eftate , when the fubftance was gone . 3. His wife , who was a woman ...
Page 242
... lefs effect on our external mein and behaviour , make fo deep an impreffion on the mind , as is very apt to bend it wholly one way . The mathematician will take little lefs than demon- firation in the common difcourfe , and the ...
... lefs effect on our external mein and behaviour , make fo deep an impreffion on the mind , as is very apt to bend it wholly one way . The mathematician will take little lefs than demon- firation in the common difcourfe , and the ...
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Be not ahmed to refufe P | 221 |
Drinking of Healths ibid | 227 |
Being witty at anothers Expence | 233 |
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