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Page 38
... Nature never defigned them . Every man has one or more qualities which may make . him ufeful both to himself and others : Nature never fails of pointing them out , and while the infant continues under her guardianship , the brings him ...
... Nature never defigned them . Every man has one or more qualities which may make . him ufeful both to himself and others : Nature never fails of pointing them out , and while the infant continues under her guardianship , the brings him ...
Page 40
... Nature , if left to herself , leads us on in the best course , but will do nothing by compulfion and constraint ; and if we are not fatisfied to go her way , we are always the greatest fufferers by it . Wherever Nature defigns a ...
... Nature , if left to herself , leads us on in the best course , but will do nothing by compulfion and constraint ; and if we are not fatisfied to go her way , we are always the greatest fufferers by it . Wherever Nature defigns a ...
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... nature , and therefore always conceal the art by which they direct themselves . They have a word , it feems , in their language , by which they exprefs the particular beauty of a plantation that thus ftrikes the imagination at firft ...
... nature , and therefore always conceal the art by which they direct themselves . They have a word , it feems , in their language , by which they exprefs the particular beauty of a plantation that thus ftrikes the imagination at firft ...
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