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... because it is only a mere ceflation of activity , but the return to diligence is difficult , because it implies a change from reft to motion , from privation to reality . $ Facilis defcenfus Averni : Noctes atque dies patet atri janua ...
... because it is only a mere ceflation of activity , but the return to diligence is difficult , because it implies a change from reft to motion , from privation to reality . $ Facilis defcenfus Averni : Noctes atque dies patet atri janua ...
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... because it is right , from that which is right only because it is etablished ; that he may neither violate effential principles by a defire of novelty , nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view by a needless ...
... because it is right , from that which is right only because it is etablished ; that he may neither violate effential principles by a defire of novelty , nor debar himself from the attainment of beauties within his view by a needless ...
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... because there have been fome whom luxury never could fink into contempt , nor idlenefs hinder from the praife of genius . THOSE who have fo much perplexed their ideas as to claim reputation from vice or folly , merely because they have ...
... because there have been fome whom luxury never could fink into contempt , nor idlenefs hinder from the praife of genius . THOSE who have fo much perplexed their ideas as to claim reputation from vice or folly , merely because they have ...
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NUMB Page 137 The neceffity of literary courage I | 9 |
A critical examination of Samfon Agonifies | 18 |
The criticiſm continued | 28 |
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| Title | The Rambler. ... English short title catalogue Eighteenth Century collection The Eighteenth Century The Rambler, Samuel Johnson |
| Author | Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | J. Payne and J. Bouquet, 1752 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 21 Sep 2006 |
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