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" ... not because the true principles of action are not known, but because, for a time, they are not remembered; and he may therefore be justly numbered among the benefactors of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may... "
The Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure - Page 247
1755
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Wisdom and Genius of Dr. Samuel Johnson: Selected from His Prose Writings

Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. MEMORY. MEMORY is, among the faculties of the human mind, that of which we make the most frequent use,...
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Rainbow readings

Prize pictorial readings - 1875 - 154 pages
...SARAH ANNE MATSON. Containing " the great Rules of Life in short sentences that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind." An appropriate Birthday or Parting Gift. Third Edition, 24mo, in gilt cloth binding. In Twopenny parts,...
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The 'Eclipse' temperance elocutionist

Eclipse temperance elocutionist - 1875 - 186 pages
...ANNE MATSON. Containing " the great .Rules of Life in short sentences that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind." An appropriate Birthday or Parting Gift. Third Edition, 24mp, in gilt cloth binding. In Twopenny parts,...
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Specimen Days in America

Walt Whitman - 19th century - 1887 - 336 pages
...of mankind, who contracts the great rule-so? life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind."— Itainbler, Ao. 175.— CONDUCT AND DUTY: A TREASURE-BOOK or INTELLECTUAL, PHYSICAL, SOCIAL, AND MORAL...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopędia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. — Johnson. Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which...
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Quit Your Worrying!

George Wharton James - Worry - 1916 - 290 pages
...of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may easily be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. I have no desire to claim as original the title used for these observations, but I do covet the joy...
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Veterinary Homoeopathy

John Rush - Medical - 2004 - 180 pages
...of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection, to recur habitually to the mind." Such a volume as this has long been wanted by the public, and the stirring interest of the theme, leaving...
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A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World

Gregory Clark - Business & Economics - 2008 - 432 pages
...of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. — Samuel Johnson, Rambler No. 175 (November 19, 1751) The basic outline of world economic history...
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THE UNITED METHODIST FREE CHURCHES

R. ABERCROMBIE M.A - 1885 - 1088 pages
...mankind, who contracts blie great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to recur habitually to the mind. PARADISE COURT. CHAPTER V. Ax OLD ROMANCE. JHIUSTMAS had always been a happy time to the Thorntons....
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Eliza Cook's Journal, Volume 2

Eliza Cook - 1850 - 442 pages
...of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and taught, by frequent recollection, to recur habitually to the mind. I WANT TO GO HOME. " I WANT to go home '" faith a wear? child, That hath lot its way in straying ;...
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