The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind ; and what in- credible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions , both of men and things ; that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul , and plant it ...
... observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind ; and what in- credible weight they have in forming and governing our opinions , both of men and things ; that trifles light as air shall waft a belief into the soul , and plant it ...
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... observation , with which we read the natural history , or remark the manners of any other animal , there is nothing in the human character which would more surprise us , than the almost universal subjugation of strength to weakness ...
... observation , with which we read the natural history , or remark the manners of any other animal , there is nothing in the human character which would more surprise us , than the almost universal subjugation of strength to weakness ...
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... observe that it is prescription which confers the title to almost every thing else . The whole course , and all the habits of civil life , favour this prejudice . II . They who obey from reason , that is to say , from conscience as ...
... observe that it is prescription which confers the title to almost every thing else . The whole course , and all the habits of civil life , favour this prejudice . II . They who obey from reason , that is to say , from conscience as ...
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... observe the actions and sentiments of the dying , we shall find that , except in a few acute diseases , attend- ed with agitations and convulsions , which exhibit only the appearances of pain , most men expire quietly , and without the ...
... observe the actions and sentiments of the dying , we shall find that , except in a few acute diseases , attend- ed with agitations and convulsions , which exhibit only the appearances of pain , most men expire quietly , and without the ...
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... observation , that in human life , at least in human institutions , our movements are very eccentric , and that when we progress , it is generally last in those things in which it ought naturally to be the first . There is an inertia in ...
... observation , that in human life , at least in human institutions , our movements are very eccentric , and that when we progress , it is generally last in those things in which it ought naturally to be the first . There is an inertia in ...
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