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... because it is only a mere ceffation 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 ceffation 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 e tablished ; that he may neither violate ef- fential principles by a defire of novelty , nor debar himself from the attainment of beau- ties within his view by a ...
... because it is right , from that which is right only because it is e tablished ; that he may neither violate ef- fential principles by a defire of novelty , nor debar himself from the attainment of beau- ties within his view by a ...
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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 fol- ly , merely because they ...
... 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 fol- ly , merely because they ...
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