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... Whole Duty of Man ; " from a great part of which I could derive no in- struction . When , for instance , I read the chapter on theft , which , from infancy , I had been taught was wrong , I was no more con- vineed that theft was wrong ...
... Whole Duty of Man ; " from a great part of which I could derive no in- struction . When , for instance , I read the chapter on theft , which , from infancy , I had been taught was wrong , I was no more con- vineed that theft was wrong ...
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... whole tenor of his life and writings . Religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though he seems not to have attained all the tranquillity and assurance in his practice of its duties that are so earnestly to be desired . His ...
... whole tenor of his life and writings . Religion was the predominant object of his thoughts ; though he seems not to have attained all the tranquillity and assurance in his practice of its duties that are so earnestly to be desired . His ...
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... whole evening with Molly Aston . That indeed was not happiness , it was rapture ; but the thoughts of it sweetened the whole . year . Molly was a beauty and a scholar , a wit and a whig , and she talked all in praise I. * He was the ...
... whole evening with Molly Aston . That indeed was not happiness , it was rapture ; but the thoughts of it sweetened the whole . year . Molly was a beauty and a scholar , a wit and a whig , and she talked all in praise I. * He was the ...
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... whole nights in the streets . Yet , as Savage had seen life in all its varieties , and been much in the company of the statesmen and wits of his time , we may suppose , in these scenes of distress , that he communicated to Johnson an ...
... whole nights in the streets . Yet , as Savage had seen life in all its varieties , and been much in the company of the statesmen and wits of his time , we may suppose , in these scenes of distress , that he communicated to Johnson an ...
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... whole himself , from notes furnished by persons employed to attend in both houses of Parliament . His sole composition of them be- gan November 19 , 1740 , and ended February 23 , 1742-3 ; a period distinguished by the struggle that ...
... whole himself , from notes furnished by persons employed to attend in both houses of Parliament . His sole composition of them be- gan November 19 , 1740 , and ended February 23 , 1742-3 ; a period distinguished by the struggle that ...
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