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NOTHING is perhaps so difficult as to find out business proper for the idle ; and ,
though it may appear paradoxical , yet I believe none have so much need of it as
they . The man who is professionally employed , in whatever department , goes ...
NOTHING is perhaps so difficult as to find out business proper for the idle ; and ,
though it may appear paradoxical , yet I believe none have so much need of it as
they . The man who is professionally employed , in whatever department , goes ...
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... tò trouble his readers with the history of those incidents in his life which have
thrown him out of the number of the professionally busy ; some untoward
circumstances in point of fortune , and some feelings , perhaps blamable from
their nicety ...
... tò trouble his readers with the history of those incidents in his life which have
thrown him out of the number of the professionally busy ; some untoward
circumstances in point of fortune , and some feelings , perhaps blamable from
their nicety ...
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For that purpose it is perhaps better calculated than more laboured and more
extended compositions , from its diurnal or weekly appearance . The greater
virtues are always the same ; but many of the lesser duties of social intercourse
receive ...
For that purpose it is perhaps better calculated than more laboured and more
extended compositions , from its diurnal or weekly appearance . The greater
virtues are always the same ; but many of the lesser duties of social intercourse
receive ...
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Even the perfect idler , like some other harmless and insignificant animals whom
naturalists are acquainted with , though he can live on air , cannot subsist in
vacuo : and the idler of a higher sort needs perhaps more ideas , more store of
mind ...
Even the perfect idler , like some other harmless and insignificant animals whom
naturalists are acquainted with , though he can live on air , cannot subsist in
vacuo : and the idler of a higher sort needs perhaps more ideas , more store of
mind ...
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... and though not perhaps calculated to make a brilliant figure in the senate , his
talents were admirably adapted for business , and must in any age have entitled
their possessor to respect and consideration . Amidst his other studies , the Duke
...
... and though not perhaps calculated to make a brilliant figure in the senate , his
talents were admirably adapted for business , and must in any age have entitled
their possessor to respect and consideration . Amidst his other studies , the Duke
...
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| Title | The British Essayists: Lounger Volume 30 of The British Essayists, James Ferguson Volume 30 of The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Biographical, Historical, and Critical, James Ferguson |
| Editor | James Ferguson |
| Contributor | James Ferguson |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jan 2006 |
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