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Page 99
... opinion ; for though many among my fellow- students took the opportunity of a more remiss dis- cipline to gratify their passions , yet virtue preserved her natural superiority , and those who ventured to neglect , were not suffered to ...
... opinion ; for though many among my fellow- students took the opportunity of a more remiss dis- cipline to gratify their passions , yet virtue preserved her natural superiority , and those who ventured to neglect , were not suffered to ...
Page 196
... opinion , sufficient to support me in a condition far preferable to the fati- gue , dependence , and uncertainty of ... Opinions mutable-the Hopes of Youth fallacious Human Opinions mutable-the Hopes of Youth fallacious.
... opinion , sufficient to support me in a condition far preferable to the fati- gue , dependence , and uncertainty of ... Opinions mutable-the Hopes of Youth fallacious Human Opinions mutable-the Hopes of Youth fallacious.
Page 298
... opinion , that when the first rules of arithmetic were known , all that was necessary to make a man com- plete might be learned on shipboard . The squire only insisted , that so much scholarship was indis- pensably necessary as might ...
... opinion , that when the first rules of arithmetic were known , all that was necessary to make a man com- plete might be learned on shipboard . The squire only insisted , that so much scholarship was indis- pensably necessary as might ...
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the Meanness of regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of | 3 |
the Meanness of regulating our Conduct by the Opinions of | 185 |
Anningait and Ajut a Greenland History | 186 |
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