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... mind with himself , but who are widely scattered in the world he wishes to knit anew his connections with his oldest friends , to continue those recently formed , and to win other friends among the rising generation for the remaining ...
... mind with himself , but who are widely scattered in the world he wishes to knit anew his connections with his oldest friends , to continue those recently formed , and to win other friends among the rising generation for the remaining ...
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... mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep ; but neither lessen nor dim the deep sense of my moral and ... mind , as the productions of con- temporary genius . The discipline , my mind had undergone , Ne falleretur rotundo sono et ...
... mind the painful sensations of distempered sleep ; but neither lessen nor dim the deep sense of my moral and ... mind , as the productions of con- temporary genius . The discipline , my mind had undergone , Ne falleretur rotundo sono et ...
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... mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in ...
... mind liable to superstition and fanaticism . Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth , minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common , which they do not possess singly . Cold and phlegmatic in ...
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... mind is between superstition with fanaticism on the one hand , and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased slowness to action on the other . For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse ...
... mind is between superstition with fanaticism on the one hand , and enthusiasm with indifference and a diseased slowness to action on the other . For the conceptions of the mind may be so vivid and adequate , as to preclude that impulse ...
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... mind constitutionally tender , delicate , and , in comparison with his three great compeers , I had almost said , effeminate ; and this additionally saddened by the unjust persecution of Burleigh , and the severe calamities , which ...
... mind constitutionally tender , delicate , and , in comparison with his three great compeers , I had almost said , effeminate ; and this additionally saddened by the unjust persecution of Burleigh , and the severe calamities , which ...
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