Practical Morality, Or, A Guide to Men and Manners: Consisting of Lord Chesterfields' Advice to His Son ; to which is Added, a Supplement Containing Extracts from Various Books, Recommended by Lord Chesterfield to Mr. Stanhope ; Together with The Polite Philosopher, Or an Essay on the Art which Makes a Man Happy in Himself, and Agreeable to Others ; to which is Added, Dr. Blair's Advice to Youth, Dr. Fordyce On Honour as a Principle, Lord Burghley's Ten Precepts to His Son, Dr. Franklin's Way to Wealth, and Pope's Universal PrayerJ. Walker, 1813 - 255 pages |
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... propen . sity seems to arise from a certain weakness and dis- gust ; when the person , who is thus disposed to be gaping continually , wants to be somewhere else 3 ATTENTION . A MAN is fit for neither business 2 ABSENCE OF MIND .
... propen . sity seems to arise from a certain weakness and dis- gust ; when the person , who is thus disposed to be gaping continually , wants to be somewhere else 3 ATTENTION . A MAN is fit for neither business 2 ABSENCE OF MIND .
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... propen- sity to rhyming- Speaking to others , what you dictate hear ; And learn yourself , while teaching you appear . Thus you see me stript of the ill - obeyed authority of a pedagogue ; and are for the future to consider me only as a ...
... propen- sity to rhyming- Speaking to others , what you dictate hear ; And learn yourself , while teaching you appear . Thus you see me stript of the ill - obeyed authority of a pedagogue ; and are for the future to consider me only as a ...
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