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... habits of bufi- nefs or pleasure , and an indifcriminate intercourse with mankind , often fuperinduce a great degree of infen- fibility ; and the battered veteran at laft confiders the admonitions of the moralift as the vain babbling of ...
... habits of bufi- nefs or pleasure , and an indifcriminate intercourse with mankind , often fuperinduce a great degree of infen- fibility ; and the battered veteran at laft confiders the admonitions of the moralift as the vain babbling of ...
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... habit is formed , which renders diffipation neceffary to existence . What , indeed , is A 3 life life or its enjoyments without fettled principles , lauda- ble ( 5 ) On an excessive and indiscriminate love of company.
... habit is formed , which renders diffipation neceffary to existence . What , indeed , is A 3 life life or its enjoyments without fettled principles , lauda- ble ( 5 ) On an excessive and indiscriminate love of company.
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... habit of virtue . Gentleness is , in truth , the great avenue to mutual enjoyment . Amidst the strife of interfering interests , it tempers the violence of contention , and keeps alive the feeds of harmony . Whatever ends a good man can ...
... habit of virtue . Gentleness is , in truth , the great avenue to mutual enjoyment . Amidst the strife of interfering interests , it tempers the violence of contention , and keeps alive the feeds of harmony . Whatever ends a good man can ...
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... habit of freedom , expofed as a flave in the market- place , and fold to the highest bidder . A merchant of Thrace becoming his purchaser , Al- cander , with fome other companions in diftrefs , was carried into that region of defolation ...
... habit of freedom , expofed as a flave in the market- place , and fold to the highest bidder . A merchant of Thrace becoming his purchaser , Al- cander , with fome other companions in diftrefs , was carried into that region of defolation ...
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... habits . This is the univerfal preparation for every character , and every station of life . Bad as the world is , refpect is always paid to virtue . In the ufual course of human affairs it will be found , that a plain understanding ...
... habits . This is the univerfal preparation for every character , and every station of life . Bad as the world is , refpect is always paid to virtue . In the ufual course of human affairs it will be found , that a plain understanding ...
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