The Monthly Visitor, and Entertaining Pocket Companion, Volume 6H.D. Symonds, 1799 |
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Page 271
... mind contracted and in- curious ; and is abfolutely contrary to what may more justly be inferred from the natural and ardent curiofity implanted in the human mind by the Supreme Creator . This curiofity , this restless thirst after ...
... mind contracted and in- curious ; and is abfolutely contrary to what may more justly be inferred from the natural and ardent curiofity implanted in the human mind by the Supreme Creator . This curiofity , this restless thirst after ...
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... mind ; while bad paffions poffefs the interior regions of the heart . At the fame time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercise of tafte is , in its native tendency , moral and purifying . From reading the most admired ...
... mind ; while bad paffions poffefs the interior regions of the heart . At the fame time this cannot but be admitted , that the exercise of tafte is , in its native tendency , moral and purifying . From reading the most admired ...
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... mind being early directed to the relish of nobler and more fubftantial gratifications ; habits of diffipation , when contracted in early life , are very rarely conquered ; hence the im- portance of directing betimes the young mind to ...
... mind being early directed to the relish of nobler and more fubftantial gratifications ; habits of diffipation , when contracted in early life , are very rarely conquered ; hence the im- portance of directing betimes the young mind to ...
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