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Page vii
... feel a particular anxiety , to guard against the charge of prefumption for an undertaking , which may be thought to require a more than ordinary share of learning and abilities . I hope therefore , to have credit for a declar- ation ...
... feel a particular anxiety , to guard against the charge of prefumption for an undertaking , which may be thought to require a more than ordinary share of learning and abilities . I hope therefore , to have credit for a declar- ation ...
Page x
... feel- ings ; and although the narrative , from the introduction of them , may lose something in point of connection , this inconvenience , I flatter myself , will be more than compen- fated by the letters themselves . mode they will ...
... feel- ings ; and although the narrative , from the introduction of them , may lose something in point of connection , this inconvenience , I flatter myself , will be more than compen- fated by the letters themselves . mode they will ...
Page 29
... feel- ings callous ; and a sense of the injustice at- tending the infliction of it , was calculated to destroy the respect due to magisterial au- thority , and its influence over the scholar . It is a material and perhaps unavoidable de ...
... feel- ings callous ; and a sense of the injustice at- tending the infliction of it , was calculated to destroy the respect due to magisterial au- thority , and its influence over the scholar . It is a material and perhaps unavoidable de ...
Page 79
... feel not a little proud of them ; but still more , that an interview of a quarter of an hour has procured me the ho- nour of your friendship . I fhould be moft happy to cultivate it , if my plans allowed me to remain longer in this ...
... feel not a little proud of them ; but still more , that an interview of a quarter of an hour has procured me the ho- nour of your friendship . I fhould be moft happy to cultivate it , if my plans allowed me to remain longer in this ...
Page 127
... feel- ing ; difficult and abftrufe problems in ma- thematics ; the beautiful and fublime in po- etry and painting ; these Occupy all my fenfes and thoughts ; nor do I neglect the study of the military art , which it would be the great ...
... feel- ing ; difficult and abftrufe problems in ma- thematics ; the beautiful and fublime in po- etry and painting ; these Occupy all my fenfes and thoughts ; nor do I neglect the study of the military art , which it would be the great ...
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