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... confider whether it were longer fafe to forfake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he refolved to pursue the new path , which he ...
... confider whether it were longer fafe to forfake the known and common track ; but remembering that the heat was now in its greatest violence , and that the plain was dusty and uneven , he refolved to pursue the new path , which he ...
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... confider virtue no farther than as it is in itself of an amiable nature , after having premised , that I understand by the word virtue fuch a general notion as is affixed to it by the writers of morality , and which by devout men ...
... confider virtue no farther than as it is in itself of an amiable nature , after having premised , that I understand by the word virtue fuch a general notion as is affixed to it by the writers of morality , and which by devout men ...
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... confider the ef- fects of time , that things neceffary and certain often fur- prife us like unexpected contingencies . We leave the beauty in her bloom , and , after an abfence of twenty years , wonder , at our return , to find her ...
... confider the ef- fects of time , that things neceffary and certain often fur- prife us like unexpected contingencies . We leave the beauty in her bloom , and , after an abfence of twenty years , wonder , at our return , to find her ...
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... confider their ways ! and no time can be more proper , than when thefe folemn feafons of recollection and religious dif- cipline fhould particularly difpofe them to feriousness and thought . They would then difcover , that though they ...
... confider their ways ! and no time can be more proper , than when thefe folemn feafons of recollection and religious dif- cipline fhould particularly difpofe them to feriousness and thought . They would then difcover , that though they ...
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... confider them only as engines of wood or iron , useful in their feveral occupations . The carman drives his horfe , and the carpenter his nail , by repeated blows ; and fo long as these produce the defired effect , and they both go ...
... confider them only as engines of wood or iron , useful in their feveral occupations . The carman drives his horfe , and the carpenter his nail , by repeated blows ; and fo long as these produce the defired effect , and they both go ...
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