The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 44
... talents has therefore been recommended by reason and by the sanction of experience , as the most efficacious method of leading the unprincipled from vice and exciting the indolent to activity . But those who have thus attempted to place ...
... talents has therefore been recommended by reason and by the sanction of experience , as the most efficacious method of leading the unprincipled from vice and exciting the indolent to activity . But those who have thus attempted to place ...
Page 45
... talents of a Roscoe might not be unworthily employed in recommending a narrative sufficiently extraordinary to ... talent for criticism were so great that they procured him the friendship of Boileau and Racine . He was acquainted more ...
... talents of a Roscoe might not be unworthily employed in recommending a narrative sufficiently extraordinary to ... talent for criticism were so great that they procured him the friendship of Boileau and Racine . He was acquainted more ...
Page 47
... talent , and energy of thought . But the moment was approaching in which his learning or his genius would be useless . His infirmities increasing , in the 82d year of his life he retired from his public employments , after having held ...
... talent , and energy of thought . But the moment was approaching in which his learning or his genius would be useless . His infirmities increasing , in the 82d year of his life he retired from his public employments , after having held ...
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ties by showing them that , nothing is impossible to talents when guided by perseverance and animated by ardour , and that how- ever forlorn may be the hope that cheers their rugged path , still there is a divinity in true genius ...
ties by showing them that , nothing is impossible to talents when guided by perseverance and animated by ardour , and that how- ever forlorn may be the hope that cheers their rugged path , still there is a divinity in true genius ...
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... talents in Newyork without a rival , and with a clear prospect of that reputation and independence which ought ever to be the reward of genuis and industry , and which in the opinion of those who know him best , he merits by excellence ...
... talents in Newyork without a rival , and with a clear prospect of that reputation and independence which ought ever to be the reward of genuis and industry , and which in the opinion of those who know him best , he merits by excellence ...
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