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Music being the first and immediate daughter of Nature , ' as the author afferts , and Oratory only an imitator of Nature ... We used to think just the contrary ; imagining that there was , literally , such a thing as natural eloquence ...
Music being the first and immediate daughter of Nature , ' as the author afferts , and Oratory only an imitator of Nature ... We used to think just the contrary ; imagining that there was , literally , such a thing as natural eloquence ...
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The first class have such a relation to the individual , as to thew most evidently that nature intended we fhould take ... endowed with a natural defire of power , of elleem , and of knowlege , is made , not for the savage and folitary ...
The first class have such a relation to the individual , as to thew most evidently that nature intended we fhould take ... endowed with a natural defire of power , of elleem , and of knowlege , is made , not for the savage and folitary ...
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No one , who had seen the face of nature alternately decaying and renewed ; and who was a daily witness of life granted and taken away , lengthened out , to fome , for a few years , and , to others , not prolonged beyond . an hour's ...
No one , who had seen the face of nature alternately decaying and renewed ; and who was a daily witness of life granted and taken away , lengthened out , to fome , for a few years , and , to others , not prolonged beyond . an hour's ...
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Reid on the active Powers | 55 |
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Liffis Obſerv on Knowles | 86 |
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