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... moral and instructive Essays , & c . THE PLEASING INSTRUCTOR , and other popular books of a like kind , have be- come so familiar in schools , that they pall upon the mind , and boys are inclined to con- sider the reading of them as a ...
... moral and instructive Essays , & c . THE PLEASING INSTRUCTOR , and other popular books of a like kind , have be- come so familiar in schools , that they pall upon the mind , and boys are inclined to con- sider the reading of them as a ...
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... morals The story of Maria , from Sterne The want of piety arises from the want of sensibility Self - delusion 119 121 123 126 132 135 The ... moral character 278 POETRY . POETRY . Messiah , a sacred eclogue The Northumberland life vi )
... morals The story of Maria , from Sterne The want of piety arises from the want of sensibility Self - delusion 119 121 123 126 132 135 The ... moral character 278 POETRY . POETRY . Messiah , a sacred eclogue The Northumberland life vi )
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... moral perception is blunted by long and reiterated colliffion ; and to him who has loft the finer fenfibilities , it is no lefs fruitless to addrefs a moral discourse , than to reprefent to the dead the charms of melody , or to the ...
... moral perception is blunted by long and reiterated colliffion ; and to him who has loft the finer fenfibilities , it is no lefs fruitless to addrefs a moral discourse , than to reprefent to the dead the charms of melody , or to the ...
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... moral instruction ; " that a great part of mankind are in effect orphans , " turned loofe into the wide world , without one faith- " ful friend to give them advice ; left to find their own " 6 way in a dark and rugged wilderness , with ...
... moral instruction ; " that a great part of mankind are in effect orphans , " turned loofe into the wide world , without one faith- " ful friend to give them advice ; left to find their own " 6 way in a dark and rugged wilderness , with ...
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... morals and their understandings . Mixed and undiftinguished society tends only to diffipate our ideas , and induce a laxity of principles and practice . The pleasure it affords is of a coarse , vulgar , noisy , and rude kind . Indeed ...
... morals and their understandings . Mixed and undiftinguished society tends only to diffipate our ideas , and induce a laxity of principles and practice . The pleasure it affords is of a coarse , vulgar , noisy , and rude kind . Indeed ...
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