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... learning in their language than in any other , from the immense number of their characters . " JOHN- SON . " It is only more difficult from its rudeness ; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe ...
... learning in their language than in any other , from the immense number of their characters . " JOHN- SON . " It is only more difficult from its rudeness ; as there is more labour in hewing down a tree with a stone than with an axe ...
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... learning to be better satisfied with my own country . Time may be employed to more advantage from nineteen to twenty - four , almost in any way than in travelling ; when you set travelling against mere negation , against doing nothing ...
... learning to be better satisfied with my own country . Time may be employed to more advantage from nineteen to twenty - four , almost in any way than in travelling ; when you set travelling against mere negation , against doing nothing ...
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... learning and virtue as you love them . : " I have been flattering myself all the summer with the hope of paying my annual visit to my friends ; but something has obstructed me : I still hope not to be long without seeing you . I should ...
... learning and virtue as you love them . : " I have been flattering myself all the summer with the hope of paying my annual visit to my friends ; but something has obstructed me : I still hope not to be long without seeing you . I should ...
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... learning , when I have been in your company . No man loves to be treated with contempt . " BEAU- CLERK . ( with a polite inclination towards Johnson ) " Sir , you have known me twenty years , and how- ever I may have treated others ...
... learning , when I have been in your company . No man loves to be treated with contempt . " BEAU- CLERK . ( with a polite inclination towards Johnson ) " Sir , you have known me twenty years , and how- ever I may have treated others ...
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... learning ; for that is a sure good . I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention ; because you have done a great deal , when you have brought him to have enter- tainment from a book . He'll get ...
... learning ; for that is a sure good . I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention ; because you have done a great deal , when you have brought him to have enter- tainment from a book . He'll get ...
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