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Pagina 158
... human nature ; but when the distemper arises from any indiscreet fer- vours of devotion , or too intense an application of the mind to its mistaken duties , it deserves our compas- sion in a more particular manner . We may , how- ever ...
... human nature ; but when the distemper arises from any indiscreet fer- vours of devotion , or too intense an application of the mind to its mistaken duties , it deserves our compas- sion in a more particular manner . We may , how- ever ...
Pagina 197
... human life . THERE are no authors I am more pleased with , than those who shew human nature in a variety of views , and describe the several ages of the world in their different manners . A reader cannot be more ration- ally entertained ...
... human life . THERE are no authors I am more pleased with , than those who shew human nature in a variety of views , and describe the several ages of the world in their different manners . A reader cannot be more ration- ally entertained ...
Pagina 268
... human nature , is that which comes upon a man with expe- rience and old age , the season when it might be ex- pected he should be wisest ; and therefore it cannot receive any of those lessening circumstances which do , in some measure ...
... human nature , is that which comes upon a man with expe- rience and old age , the season when it might be ex- pected he should be wisest ; and therefore it cannot receive any of those lessening circumstances which do , in some measure ...
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