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... Affections - Lord Shaftesbury's Essays on Wit and Humour , part 3. sect . 3 . • • 24. Conjugal Love - Museum or Literary and Historical Register for 1746 , p . 490 25. Dramatic Poets - Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poetry · 26. Seriousness ...
... Affections - Lord Shaftesbury's Essays on Wit and Humour , part 3. sect . 3 . • • 24. Conjugal Love - Museum or Literary and Historical Register for 1746 , p . 490 25. Dramatic Poets - Dryden's Essay on Dramatic Poetry · 26. Seriousness ...
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... affections ; yet truth , which only judges itself , teaches , that the enquiry of truth , which is the love - making , or wooing of it , the knowledge of truth , which is the presence of it , and the belief of truth , which is the ...
... affections ; yet truth , which only judges itself , teaches , that the enquiry of truth , which is the love - making , or wooing of it , the knowledge of truth , which is the presence of it , and the belief of truth , which is the ...
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... affections and passions which lodge themselves within the breast of man , envy is the most troublesome , the most restless , has the most of malignity , the most of poison . The object to which she bears immortal hatred is virtue , and ...
... affections and passions which lodge themselves within the breast of man , envy is the most troublesome , the most restless , has the most of malignity , the most of poison . The object to which she bears immortal hatred is virtue , and ...
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... affections . Some have an over early ripeness in their years , which fades betimes . These are , first , such as have brittle wits , of which the edge is soon turned ; such as was Hermogenes , the rhetorician , whose books are ...
... affections . Some have an over early ripeness in their years , which fades betimes . These are , first , such as have brittle wits , of which the edge is soon turned ; such as was Hermogenes , the rhetorician , whose books are ...
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... it were , the natural affections of my soul gave me a secret beut or aversion from them , as some plants are said to turn away from others , by an antipathy inperceptible to themselves , and inscru- table to man's 42 Miscellaneous.
... it were , the natural affections of my soul gave me a secret beut or aversion from them , as some plants are said to turn away from others , by an antipathy inperceptible to themselves , and inscru- table to man's 42 Miscellaneous.
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