The Correspondence of the Right Honourable Sir John Sinclair, Bart: With Reminiscences of the Most Distinguished Characters who Have Appeared in Great Britain, and in Foreign Countries, During the Last Fifty Years. Illustrated by Facsimiles of Two Hundred Autographs ...H. Colburn & R. Bentley, 1831 - Agriculturists |
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... mind de- generates , unless some great objects be kept in view ; 2. From the attention I have paid to the subjects of health and lon- gevity , I find that I am still capable of great exertion , either personal or mental : and , 3. I ...
... mind de- generates , unless some great objects be kept in view ; 2. From the attention I have paid to the subjects of health and lon- gevity , I find that I am still capable of great exertion , either personal or mental : and , 3. I ...
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... minds of many of the hearers , and render- ed him extremely unpopular . ways The On the other hand , as his friends contended , the King al- shewed a sincere and hearty desire to render his country flourishing . Every useful attempt ...
... minds of many of the hearers , and render- ed him extremely unpopular . ways The On the other hand , as his friends contended , the King al- shewed a sincere and hearty desire to render his country flourishing . Every useful attempt ...
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... minds of the people of France . But his Royal Highness did not seem much inclined to enter into those ideas . There was a singular contrast in my reception at the Court of France , at two different periods . On the 1st of January 1787 ...
... minds of the people of France . But his Royal Highness did not seem much inclined to enter into those ideas . There was a singular contrast in my reception at the Court of France , at two different periods . On the 1st of January 1787 ...
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... mind being expanded and improved by rival- ship and competition with other boys , being also accustomed to depend on his own resources , and to be prepared for any emergency , he was enabled to get through so hazardous a trial as the ...
... mind being expanded and improved by rival- ship and competition with other boys , being also accustomed to depend on his own resources , and to be prepared for any emergency , he was enabled to get through so hazardous a trial as the ...
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... mind apparently hard at work in digesting schemes , and forming plans , and proudly rejecting every other suggestion but that of his own fancy . For this intolerable am- bition he was often reproved by the elder Lucien , his uncle , a ...
... mind apparently hard at work in digesting schemes , and forming plans , and proudly rejecting every other suggestion but that of his own fancy . For this intolerable am- bition he was often reproved by the elder Lucien , his uncle , a ...
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Page 63 - But it may be truly said, that men too much conversant in office, are rarely minds of remarkable enlargement. Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted.
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Page 324 - ... it must be to do it accurately, in arranging and printing the originals of the Poems of Ossian, as they have come to my hands.
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Page 64 - ... to which they lead. When theoretical knowledge and practical skill are happily combined in the same person, the intellectual power of man appears in its full perfection, and fits him equally to conduct, with a masterly hand, the details of ordinary business, and to contend successfully with the ffi /u / * untried difficulties of new and hazardous situations.
Page 64 - Their habits of office are apt to give them a turn to think the substance of business not to be much more important than the forms in which it is conducted. These forms are adapted to ordinary occasions; and, therefore, persons who are nurtured in office, do admirably well, as long as things go on in their common order; but when the high roads are broken up, and the waters out; when a new and troubled scene is opened, and the file affords no precedent, then it is that a greater knowledge of mankind,...