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" After we have practised good actions a while, they become easy ; and when they are easy, we begin to take pleasure in them ; and when they please us, we do them frequently ; and, by frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit ; and a confirmed habit... "
An Introduction to the Classics: Containing a Short Discourse on Their ... - Page 224
by Anthony Blackwall - 1737 - 271 pages
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The Works of the Most Reverend Dr. John Tillotson, Volume 1

John Tillotson - 1748 - 412 pages
...them ; and when they pleaft «s, we do them frequently, and think we cannot repeat them too often ; and by frequency of acts a thing grows into a habit ; and a confirmed habit is a fccond kind of nature ; and fo far as any thing is natural, fo far it is neccflary,...
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The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education, Volume 1

Robert Dodsley - 1754 - 590 pages
...become cafy ; and when they are eafy, we begin to *'. take Pleafure in them ; and when they pleale us, we do " them frequently ; and by frequency of...; and fo far as any thing is natural, fo far it is he" ceflary, and we can hardly do othcrwife; nayj we do it " many times when we do not think of itj"...
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The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education. Wherein ..., Volume 1

Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 606 pages
...Pleafure in them ; and when they pleafe us, we do " them frequently ; and by Frequency of AQs a Thine grows " into a Habit ; and a confirm'd Habit is a...Kind of " Nature; and fo far as any thing is natural, fofaritisne" ceflary, and we can hardly do Otherwife ; nay, we do it *' many times when we do not think...
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Rhetoric; Or, A View of Its Principal Tropes and Figures, in Their Origin ...

Thomas Gibbons - 1767 - 540 pages
...repeat " them too often ; and by frequency of a<5Vs, a " thing grows into an habit ; and a confirmed " habit is a fecond kind of nature : and fo far " as any thing is natural, fo far it is necefsary, " and TO vXip.ax<v1<>» xaXspHron %*!,««-— Eri oe «?£» «XX* aa. Anargo^iJ. Oio»,...
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The works of ... dr John Tillotson, Volume 1

John Tillotson (abp. of Canterbury.) - 1772 - 410 pages
...in them; and when they pleafff us, we do them frequently, and think we cannot repeat them loo often, and by frequency of acts a thing grows into a habit ; and a confirmed habit is a fecond kind of niture ; and fo far as any thing is natural, fcr far it is neceflary,...
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An English Grammar: Comprehending the Principles and Rules of the ..., Volume 1

Lindley Murray - 1808 - 526 pages
...they become easy; and when liwy are easy, we begin to take pleasure iu them ; and when tlit:y please us, we do them frequently; and by frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit; and conArmed habit is .i kind of second nature; and so far as any thing is natural, so far it is necessary...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ...

William Scott - 1814 - 424 pages
...are easy, we begin to take pleasure in them ; and when they please us we do them frequently ; rj>d by frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit ; and a confirmed habit is a second kind of nature ; and so far as any thing is natural, so far it is necessary...
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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the ...

William Scott - 1817 - 416 pages
...; and when they are easy, we begin to take pleasure in them ; and when they please u«, we do tfcem frequently ; and by frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit ; aud a confined habit is a second kind of nature ; and so far ae any thing is natural, so far it is...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...they become easy ; and when they are easy, we begin to take pleasureiln them ; and when they please us, we do them frequently ; and, by frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit ; and a confirmed habit is a second kind of nature ; and, so far as any thing is natural, so far it is necessary,...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 3

John Mason Good - 1819 - 694 pages
...they bwome easy ; and when they ate easy, we bejin to take pleasure in them ; and when they please us, we do them frequently ; and by frequency of acts, a thing grows into a habit : and confirmed habit is a second kind of nature ; and R> far as any thing ¡s natural, so far it U necessary,...
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