The Rambler, Volume 3W. Strahan, J. Rivington and Sons, J. Hinton, B. Collins, T. Longman, T. Caslon, B. Law, T. Carnan, G. Robinson, T. Lowndes, T. Cadell, H. Baldwin, F. Newbery, J. Knox, J. Bew, J. Nichols, W. Goldsmith, and W. Fox, 1779 |
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... understanding it , and grow weary of disturbance , content themselves with quiet ignorance , and re- fufe to be harraffed with labours which they have no hopes of recompenfing with knowledge . The authors of new discoveries may furely ...
... understanding it , and grow weary of disturbance , content themselves with quiet ignorance , and re- fufe to be harraffed with labours which they have no hopes of recompenfing with knowledge . The authors of new discoveries may furely ...
Pagina 16
... understanding is equally I abftracted from the object of enquiry ; but , per- haps , if it be detained by occupations lefs pleaf- [ ing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity , than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures ...
... understanding is equally I abftracted from the object of enquiry ; but , per- haps , if it be detained by occupations lefs pleaf- [ ing , it returns again to study with greater alacrity , than when it is glutted with ideal pleasures ...
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... understanding , that they declared themselves determined to devote the remaining part of life to my happiness and the increase of their eftate . The abilities of my father and mother were not perceptibly unequal , and education had ...
... understanding , that they declared themselves determined to devote the remaining part of life to my happiness and the increase of their eftate . The abilities of my father and mother were not perceptibly unequal , and education had ...
Pagina 38
... understandings not far extended beyond the instincts of animal life ; but unhappily he that fixes his attention on things always before him , will never have long ceffations of anger . There . are many veterans of luxury , upon whom ...
... understandings not far extended beyond the instincts of animal life ; but unhappily he that fixes his attention on things always before him , will never have long ceffations of anger . There . are many veterans of luxury , upon whom ...
Pagina 41
... understanding ; and such is the limitation of the human powers , that by atten- tion to trifles we must let things of importance pass unobserved : when we examine a mite with a glass , we fee nothing but a mite . That it is every man's ...
... understanding ; and such is the limitation of the human powers , that by atten- tion to trifles we must let things of importance pass unobserved : when we examine a mite with a glass , we fee nothing but a mite . That it is every man's ...
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