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1803
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The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1804 - 418 pages
...imitate , and with whose opinions they must comply , if they desire to pass their time happily among them. To lessen that disdain with which scholars are...business of the world, and the unwillingness with whicli they condescend to learn what is not to be found in any system of philosophy , it may be necessary...
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The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 3

1806 - 340 pages
...must imitate, and with whose opinions they must comply,if they desire to pass their time happily among them. To lessen that disdain with which scholars are...of the world, and the unwillingness with which they con^ descend to learn what is not to be found in any »yttem of philosophy, it may be necessary to...
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The British Essayists, Volume 21

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 334 pages
...imitate, and with whose opinions they must comply, if they desire to pass their time happily among them. ' To lessen that disdain with which scholars...though admiration is excited by abstruse researches and remote discoveries, yet pleasure is not given, nor affection conciliated, but by softer accomplishments,...
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The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers ...

William Enfield - 1808 - 434 pages
...desire to pass their time happily among them. To lessen that disdain with which scholars are incl ined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescended to learn what is not to be found in any system of philosophy, it may be necessary to consider,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...imitate, and with whose opinions they must comply, if they desire to pass their time happily among them. To lessen that disdain with which scholars are...though admiration is excited by abstruse researches and remote discoveries, yet pleasure is not given, nor affection conciliated, but by softer accomplishments,...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical: Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 524 pages
...on the necessity of accommodating knowledge to the purposes of life, the Rambler thus proceeds : " To lessen that disdain with which scholars are inclined...though admiration is excited by abstruse researches and remote discoveries, yet pleasure is not given, nor affection conciliated, but by softer accomplishments,...
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Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 530 pages
...Animadverting on the necessity of accommodating knowledge to the purposes of life, the Rambler thus proceeds: " To lessen that disdain with which scholars are inclined...though admiration is excited by abstruse researches and remote discoveries, yet pleasure is not given, nor affection conciliated, but by softer accomplishments,...
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Essays, Biographical, Critical, and Historical Illustrative of the ..., Volume 1

Nathan Drake - 1809 - 520 pages
...Animadverting on the necessity of accommodating knowledge to the purposes of life, the Rambler tlius proceeds: "To lessen that disdain with which scholars are inclined...condescend to learn what is not to be found in any system <if philosophy, it may be necessary to consider, that though admiration is excited by abstruse researches...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...imitate, and with whose opinions they must comply, if they desire to pass their time happily among them. To lessen that disdain with which scholars are...though admiration is excited by abstruse researches and remote discoveries, yet pleasure is not given, nor affection conciliated, but by softer accomplishments,...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]. [Another], Volume 2

1810 - 462 pages
...imitate, and with whose opinions they must comply, rf they desire to pass their time happily among them. To lessen that disdain with which scholars are...to learn what is not to be found in any system of philoso-: phy, it may be necessary to consider that, though admiration is excited by abstruse researches...
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