The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 13
... excellence which it is my ambition to obtain . Continual- ly occupied with my art and its means , I have seldom had lei- sure even to perceive how great has been my fondness for it .. Yet this fondness has not only supported me through ...
... excellence which it is my ambition to obtain . Continual- ly occupied with my art and its means , I have seldom had lei- sure even to perceive how great has been my fondness for it .. Yet this fondness has not only supported me through ...
Page 44
... excellence which can only be attained with 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 ...
... excellence which can only be attained with 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 ...
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... he has since attained such excellence , was determined to pursue the bent of his inclination at an all hazards . To those who are accustom- VOL . V. K ed to inquire into the first causes which give a SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MR . WOOD . 65.
... he has since attained such excellence , was determined to pursue the bent of his inclination at an all hazards . To those who are accustom- VOL . V. K ed to inquire into the first causes which give a SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MR . WOOD . 65.
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... and which in the opinion of those who know him best , he merits by excellence in his art as well as by his unassuming manners and genuine worth . THE FALSE PRINCE OF MODENA . An Anecdote of the 68 SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MR . WOOD .
... and which in the opinion of those who know him best , he merits by excellence in his art as well as by his unassuming manners and genuine worth . THE FALSE PRINCE OF MODENA . An Anecdote of the 68 SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF MR . WOOD .
Page 89
... much more so must it be when dignified by every excellence , and adorned by every virtue ? When the powers of the mind receive a lustre from the qualities VOL . V. N of the heart , when public eminence is harmoniously blended.
... much more so must it be when dignified by every excellence , and adorned by every virtue ? When the powers of the mind receive a lustre from the qualities VOL . V. N of the heart , when public eminence is harmoniously blended.
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