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Let reason go before every enterprize , and counsel before every action , с н А Р.
VI . THI * HE latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies ,
prejudices , and false opinions he had contracted in the former . Censure is the
tax a ...
Let reason go before every enterprize , and counsel before every action , с н А Р.
VI . THI * HE latter part of a wise man's life is taken up in curing the follies ,
prejudices , and false opinions he had contracted in the former . Censure is the
tax a ...
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... coaxing , nor flattery , on other people's , make you recede one jot from any
point that reason and prudence have bid you pursue ; but return to the charge ,
persist , persevere , and you will find most things attainable that are poffible .
... coaxing , nor flattery , on other people's , make you recede one jot from any
point that reason and prudence have bid you pursue ; but return to the charge ,
persist , persevere , and you will find most things attainable that are poffible .
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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 . diate perception : a ...
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 . diate perception : a ...
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The number of these can be but small , and we have means sufficient in our
hands to reduce them to reason . They have left ụs hostages more dear to them
than life . Their wives , their . children , their fathers , their mothers , are here in
the city ...
The number of these can be but small , and we have means sufficient in our
hands to reduce them to reason . They have left ụs hostages more dear to them
than life . Their wives , their . children , their fathers , their mothers , are here in
the city ...
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which reason , as far as I can see at present , I shall , I believe , at all times , think
it a very dangerous experiment to repeal the feptennial bill . C H A P. XI . THE
REPEAL LORD LYTTELTON'S SPEECH ON OF THE ACT CALLED THE JEW
BILL ...
which reason , as far as I can see at present , I shall , I believe , at all times , think
it a very dangerous experiment to repeal the feptennial bill . C H A P. XI . THE
REPEAL LORD LYTTELTON'S SPEECH ON OF THE ACT CALLED THE JEW
BILL ...
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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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