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Page 13
... labour of study and exalted the pleasure of practice , but has stimulated every exertion not only to render my works more excellent but more durable by the friendly aid of chemistry . After having perfected the catalogue of durable ...
... labour of study and exalted the pleasure of practice , but has stimulated every exertion not only to render my works more excellent but more durable by the friendly aid of chemistry . After having perfected the catalogue of durable ...
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... labour or attention on it ; yet so great are the other difficulties in his art that he generally prefers the easisest means of execut- ing his conceptions , which would be dulled or dissipated under a difficult or laborious process ...
... labour or attention on it ; yet so great are the other difficulties in his art that he generally prefers the easisest means of execut- ing his conceptions , which would be dulled or dissipated under a difficult or laborious process ...
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... labour and difficulty , it is too apt to be diverted by every trifling impression , or to be lulled into a culpable indifference . To present before the imagination exam- ples of unsullied virtue or extraordinary talents has therefore ...
... labour and difficulty , it is too apt to be diverted by every trifling impression , or to be lulled into a culpable indifference . To present before the imagination exam- ples of unsullied virtue or extraordinary talents has therefore ...
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... labour were to him the principal sources of delight . Among those men to whom no intricacy is perplexing he may justly be distinguished ; for he surely must have been possessed of no mean acuteness of perception , who , when wearied by ...
... labour were to him the principal sources of delight . Among those men to whom no intricacy is perplexing he may justly be distinguished ; for he surely must have been possessed of no mean acuteness of perception , who , when wearied by ...
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... labour the first of human employments . Exertion of mind therefore as it for the most part tends to inaction of body is highly unpopular , and there is little difference in their minds between the vacant ideot who sits in the sun all ...
... labour the first of human employments . Exertion of mind therefore as it for the most part tends to inaction of body is highly unpopular , and there is little difference in their minds between the vacant ideot who sits in the sun all ...
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| Title | The Port Folio, Volume 5 Volumes 40-42; Volumes 220-227 of American periodical series, 1800-1850 |
| Contributors | Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins, John Elihu Hall |
| Publisher | Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 11 Apr 2019 |
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