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... carries you beyond thefe is often dangerous , and always unneceffary . Of what Confequence , for Example , is it for you to know the Difference betwixt the Ptolemaick and Co- pernican Syftems ? Or in what Manner Storms and Lightning are ...
... carries you beyond thefe is often dangerous , and always unneceffary . Of what Confequence , for Example , is it for you to know the Difference betwixt the Ptolemaick and Co- pernican Syftems ? Or in what Manner Storms and Lightning are ...
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... carries its own Reward . NOR will you be able , MADAM , to excufe yourfelf , by alledging the Temptations and Al- lurements of a Court . Our modern Courtiers are fo intent on pufhing on their own Fortune , or fapplanting their Rivals ...
... carries its own Reward . NOR will you be able , MADAM , to excufe yourfelf , by alledging the Temptations and Al- lurements of a Court . Our modern Courtiers are fo intent on pufhing on their own Fortune , or fapplanting their Rivals ...
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... , and fuited to the prefent Age : But the Pretenders to this myftical Art are fo numerous , and the Thing it felf is fo eminently ridiculous , it carries its own Con futation . Wisdom of Heaven has eftablish'd , and reject all Commerce 21.
... , and fuited to the prefent Age : But the Pretenders to this myftical Art are fo numerous , and the Thing it felf is fo eminently ridiculous , it carries its own Con futation . Wisdom of Heaven has eftablish'd , and reject all Commerce 21.
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... carries its own Excufe . with it . To conclude , remember those beautiful Words of Titus , ( 1 ) who , because he had paffed a Day , without an Occafion of obliging any one , ( 1 ) See Suetonius , in the Article of his Life . faid ...
... carries its own Excufe . with it . To conclude , remember those beautiful Words of Titus , ( 1 ) who , because he had paffed a Day , without an Occafion of obliging any one , ( 1 ) See Suetonius , in the Article of his Life . faid ...
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Page 11 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; "Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands ; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed.