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Page 97
Pithy sentences of wisdom may so far be of value , as they tend to forcibly impress the mind , and are easily retained by the memory . Concise reasoning and truth , so exhibited as to arrest attention , like an axiom , will ever be ...
Pithy sentences of wisdom may so far be of value , as they tend to forcibly impress the mind , and are easily retained by the memory . Concise reasoning and truth , so exhibited as to arrest attention , like an axiom , will ever be ...
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He observes : It is , doubtless , impossible for a single mind to embrace all the objects here pointed out so as to fathem the depths of human know . ledge in each ; -to be at the same time the mind of Newton , Locke , Boyle , and ...
He observes : It is , doubtless , impossible for a single mind to embrace all the objects here pointed out so as to fathem the depths of human know . ledge in each ; -to be at the same time the mind of Newton , Locke , Boyle , and ...
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When the powerful hand of time imprints on us the wrinkles , of age , blunts the senses , absorbs the vigour of their mind and body what would be able to charm and dispel the grief of falling into decay ?
When the powerful hand of time imprints on us the wrinkles , of age , blunts the senses , absorbs the vigour of their mind and body what would be able to charm and dispel the grief of falling into decay ?
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Predictions See Dobbs | 34 |
Pride of Birth a Satire | 44 |
Lelands Reflections | 99 |
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