Useful Reflections on Several Subjects: Suited to the Present Times: Each Chapter Beginning with a Diverting Fable; to which is Added a Proper Moral: with Curious Observations from the Best Histories. Done Into English, from a French Manuscript, by P. B. Du-Boisauthor, and are to be sold, 1723 - 265 pages |
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... Reason of their containing fuch grofs Abfurdities , as brute Beasts , and Trees having the Ufe of Speech : Now I humbly prefume they are not a Whit less ufeful upon this Account , but , on the contrary , more defirable , and valuable ...
... Reason of their containing fuch grofs Abfurdities , as brute Beasts , and Trees having the Ufe of Speech : Now I humbly prefume they are not a Whit less ufeful upon this Account , but , on the contrary , more defirable , and valuable ...
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... Reason of their Age . If those very Perfons , who are the most vers'd and experienc'd in the Management of Affairs , often prove deficient , and leave their Matters in Disorder and Confufion ; What can we expect from a hair - brain'd ...
... Reason of their Age . If those very Perfons , who are the most vers'd and experienc'd in the Management of Affairs , often prove deficient , and leave their Matters in Disorder and Confufion ; What can we expect from a hair - brain'd ...
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... Reason , even in Regard to his own Family , feeing that probably his Son Rehoboam was an Inftance of it , which nearly concern'd him , if we may conclude fo much from his fubfequent Behaviour after his Father's Death , at which Time he ...
... Reason , even in Regard to his own Family , feeing that probably his Son Rehoboam was an Inftance of it , which nearly concern'd him , if we may conclude fo much from his fubfequent Behaviour after his Father's Death , at which Time he ...
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... Reason is a Mark of Levity . Flattery and Grimmaces often make a deeper Impreffion on the Mind of great Perfons , than Prudence and Wifdom . An indifcreet Man always takes more Liberty than his Patron defigns to grant him ; in fine , a ...
... Reason is a Mark of Levity . Flattery and Grimmaces often make a deeper Impreffion on the Mind of great Perfons , than Prudence and Wifdom . An indifcreet Man always takes more Liberty than his Patron defigns to grant him ; in fine , a ...
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... Reason to have ; his Son quickly approv'd of that receiv'd Maxim , that dead Lions can't roar , or as the French fay , Les Morts ne mordent pas . He thought it a Kind of Superftition , to regulate his Conduct by the Pre- fcriptions of a ...
... Reason to have ; his Son quickly approv'd of that receiv'd Maxim , that dead Lions can't roar , or as the French fay , Les Morts ne mordent pas . He thought it a Kind of Superftition , to regulate his Conduct by the Pre- fcriptions of a ...
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