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... reflection ..... PRESENCE OF MIND , advantages of PRESS , responsibility of editors .... PROCRASTINATION , evils of ..... PROMISES , evils of breaking . 167 169 171 172 175 179 181 PRUDENCE , defined ... 183 QUACKS , several kinds ...
... reflection ..... PRESENCE OF MIND , advantages of PRESS , responsibility of editors .... PROCRASTINATION , evils of ..... PROMISES , evils of breaking . 167 169 171 172 175 179 181 PRUDENCE , defined ... 183 QUACKS , several kinds ...
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... turns his thoughts to the pris- tine quiet of his agrarian domain , and covets not the fame that accumulates around the other professions . He has much time for intellectual improvement and reflection . 12 THE . PROBE .
... turns his thoughts to the pris- tine quiet of his agrarian domain , and covets not the fame that accumulates around the other professions . He has much time for intellectual improvement and reflection . 12 THE . PROBE .
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... reflection . Constantly surrounded by the varied and varying beauties of nature , and the never ceasing and harmonious operations of her laws , his mind is led to contemplate the wisdom of the great Architect of worlds , and the natural ...
... reflection . Constantly surrounded by the varied and varying beauties of nature , and the never ceasing and harmonious operations of her laws , his mind is led to contemplate the wisdom of the great Architect of worlds , and the natural ...
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... reflected by this heaven - daring , heart - break- ing , soul - destroying , fashionable , but ruinous vice . GENIUS . THE man who can analyze Genius , and , as a chem- ist , in his laboratory , show , to a demonstration , its component ...
... reflected by this heaven - daring , heart - break- ing , soul - destroying , fashionable , but ruinous vice . GENIUS . THE man who can analyze Genius , and , as a chem- ist , in his laboratory , show , to a demonstration , its component ...
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... reflecting the prismatic colors ; so Genius refracts and reflects the intellectual rays of mind , imparting fresh vigor , lustre , and force . The diamond can never shine , until divested of the rubbish of the quarry , by the hand of ...
... reflecting the prismatic colors ; so Genius refracts and reflects the intellectual rays of mind , imparting fresh vigor , lustre , and force . The diamond can never shine , until divested of the rubbish of the quarry , by the hand of ...
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