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... perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath his virtues by
will , and settle his sense and learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his
lands , a noble descent would then indeed be a very valuable privilege ...
... perfections , and cannot be transferred . If a man could bequeath his virtues by
will , and settle his sense and learning upon his heirs , as certainly as he can his
lands , a noble descent would then indeed be a very valuable privilege ...
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Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so valuable as common sense . There
are forty men of wit for one man of sense ; and he that will carry nothing about
him but gold , will be every day at a loss for want of ready change . LEARNING is
...
Fine sense and exalted sense are not half so valuable as common sense . There
are forty men of wit for one man of sense ; and he that will carry nothing about
him but gold , will be every day at a loss for want of ready change . LEARNING is
...
Page 98
ON GOOD SENSE . ERE I to explain what I understand by good sense , I should
call it right reason ; but right reason that arises not from formal and logical
deductions , but from a fort of intuitive faculty in the foul , which distinguishes by
imme ...
ON GOOD SENSE . ERE I to explain what I understand by good sense , I should
call it right reason ; but right reason that arises not from formal and logical
deductions , but from a fort of intuitive faculty in the foul , which distinguishes by
imme ...
Page 100
... and when thou viewest him in that light too , and reckoneft upon his friends , his
family , his kindred and allies , and musterest up with them the many recruits
which will lift under him from a sense 1 5 1 1 a sense of common danger ; 100
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... and when thou viewest him in that light too , and reckoneft upon his friends , his
family , his kindred and allies , and musterest up with them the many recruits
which will lift under him from a sense 1 5 1 1 a sense of common danger ; 100
Book ...
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But him the least the dull or painful hours Of life oppress , whom fober Sense
conducts , And Virtue , thro * this labyrinth we tread , Virtue and Sense I mean not
to disjoin ; Virtue and Sense are one : and , trust me , he Who has not virtue is not
...
But him the least the dull or painful hours Of life oppress , whom fober Sense
conducts , And Virtue , thro * this labyrinth we tread , Virtue and Sense I mean not
to disjoin ; Virtue and Sense are one : and , trust me , he Who has not virtue is not
...
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| Title | The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
| Author | William Enfield |
| Editor | William Enfield |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1797 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | 11 Jun 2012 |
| Length | 436 pages |
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