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... learning in authors , and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination . " - SWIFT . NEW YORK : DODD , MEAD & COMPANY , 751 BROADWAY . WDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Entered , according to Act of Congress THE ...
... learning in authors , and make them point with warmth and quickness upon the reader's imagination . " - SWIFT . NEW YORK : DODD , MEAD & COMPANY , 751 BROADWAY . WDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Entered , according to Act of Congress THE ...
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... learning at the great gate , requires an expense of times and forms ; therefore , men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back door . - Swift . BOOKS , HOW VALUED . - Books , like proverbs , receive their ...
... learning at the great gate , requires an expense of times and forms ; therefore , men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back door . - Swift . BOOKS , HOW VALUED . - Books , like proverbs , receive their ...
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... learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ore of lead , it is too little to pay for the labor of separation ; and he that has been often deceived by the promise of a title , at last grows ...
... learning is so buried in the mass of general notions , that like silver mingled with the ore of lead , it is too little to pay for the labor of separation ; and he that has been often deceived by the promise of a title , at last grows ...
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... learning , nor any wit ; but if he has common sense , and something friendly in his behavior , it con- ciliates men's minds more than the brightest parts without this disposition ; and when a man of such a turn comes to old age , he is ...
... learning , nor any wit ; but if he has common sense , and something friendly in his behavior , it con- ciliates men's minds more than the brightest parts without this disposition ; and when a man of such a turn comes to old age , he is ...
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... learning , who would not appear in the world a mere scholar , or philosopher , to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agreeable , and an inferior ac ...
... learning , who would not appear in the world a mere scholar , or philosopher , to make himself master of the social virtue which I have here mentioned . Complaisance renders a superior amiable , an equal agreeable , and an inferior ac ...
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