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To the impetuosity of youthful de “ course of life I am in is wrong ; I know sire ,
succeed the more sober , but no less that I am engrossed by the world that
dangerous attachments of advancing “ I bave no time for reficction , nor for the
years ...
To the impetuosity of youthful de “ course of life I am in is wrong ; I know sire ,
succeed the more sober , but no less that I am engrossed by the world that
dangerous attachments of advancing “ I bave no time for reficction , nor for the
years ...
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... ment avoided , otherwise iban by our acwhich is really suchor if I think there
quaintance with them and with ourselves : is more or less good , or more or less
evil the more exact our knowledge of this in any thing than there really ismor if
kind ...
... ment avoided , otherwise iban by our acwhich is really suchor if I think there
quaintance with them and with ourselves : is more or less good , or more or less
evil the more exact our knowledge of this in any thing than there really ismor if
kind ...
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... are wholly regardless of cultivating them ? which we are universally agreed ,
we shail Whatever I hope for in a future abode , perceive feu , if any , of thein
obtained or I ought to think the reward of something secured without more or less
care ...
... are wholly regardless of cultivating them ? which we are universally agreed ,
we shail Whatever I hope for in a future abode , perceive feu , if any , of thein
obtained or I ought to think the reward of something secured without more or less
care ...
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Authe Pas | 1 |
Practice necessary for forming a Syle Blair 401 95 On Plainness and Perspicuity Felton 436 | 34 |
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| Title | Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry |
| Editor | Vicesimus Knox |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1808 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 11 Nov 2006 |
| Length | 1 pages |
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