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... ftate of intellectual and manual performances . A long calculation or a complex diagram affrights the timorous and unexperienced from a fecond view ; but if we have skill fufficient to analife them into fimple principles , it will ...
... ftate of intellectual and manual performances . A long calculation or a complex diagram affrights the timorous and unexperienced from a fecond view ; but if we have skill fufficient to analife them into fimple principles , it will ...
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... ftate fo oppofite to real happiness , as that all the peace of folitude , and felicity of medita- tion , muft arife from refolutions of forfa- king it . Yet the world will often afford opportunities of obferving men , who pass months ...
... ftate fo oppofite to real happiness , as that all the peace of folitude , and felicity of medita- tion , muft arife from refolutions of forfa- king it . Yet the world will often afford opportunities of obferving men , who pass months ...
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... He told me at laft , with an appearance of forrow , that all hopes of restoration to my former ftate were for ever precluded ; that chance chance had discovered my fecret and malice divulged it , 296 The RAMBLER . N ° .171 .
... He told me at laft , with an appearance of forrow , that all hopes of restoration to my former ftate were for ever precluded ; that chance chance had discovered my fecret and malice divulged it , 296 The RAMBLER . N ° .171 .
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The danger of attempting wit in converfation | 24 |
An account of fquire Blufter | 32 |
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