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... firft leave childhood behind us , then youth , then the years of ripened manhood , then the better or more pleasing part of old - age .'- The perufal of this paffage having excited in me a train of reflec- tions on the state of man ...
... firft leave childhood behind us , then youth , then the years of ripened manhood , then the better or more pleasing part of old - age .'- The perufal of this paffage having excited in me a train of reflec- tions on the state of man ...
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... firft fmatterings of knowledge , prefumes to make light of what the rest of mankind revere . At the fame time , you are not to imagine , that when exhorted to be religious , you are called upon to become more for- mal and folemn in your ...
... firft fmatterings of knowledge , prefumes to make light of what the rest of mankind revere . At the fame time , you are not to imagine , that when exhorted to be religious , you are called upon to become more for- mal and folemn in your ...
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... firft inclosure , I was ftun- ned with a confufed murmur of jarring voices , and dif- fonant founds ; which increased upon me to fuch a de- gree , that I was utterly confounded , and could compare the noife to nothing but the confufion ...
... firft inclosure , I was ftun- ned with a confufed murmur of jarring voices , and dif- fonant founds ; which increased upon me to fuch a de- gree , that I was utterly confounded , and could compare the noife to nothing but the confufion ...
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... firft derided his flow and toilfome progrefs . Indeed there were few who afcended the hill with equal and uninterrupted fteadinefs ; for , befide the difficulties of the way , they were continually folicited to turn afide by a numerous ...
... firft derided his flow and toilfome progrefs . Indeed there were few who afcended the hill with equal and uninterrupted fteadinefs ; for , befide the difficulties of the way , they were continually folicited to turn afide by a numerous ...
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... firft appeared in their countenance , changed by degrees into a melancholy languor , which was tinged with deeper and deeper gloom , as they glided down the stream of Infignificance ; a dark and fluggish water , which is curled by no ...
... firft appeared in their countenance , changed by degrees into a melancholy languor , which was tinged with deeper and deeper gloom , as they glided down the stream of Infignificance ; a dark and fluggish water , which is curled by no ...
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