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so little to be valued in comparison with those of the Ancients , is our changing this noble and almost divine subject of Friendship for the soft effeminate Love - Matters : For though Love and Friendship are equally tender and touching ...
so little to be valued in comparison with those of the Ancients , is our changing this noble and almost divine subject of Friendship for the soft effeminate Love - Matters : For though Love and Friendship are equally tender and touching ...
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THE truth of the matter is ; all this weakness even of those wisest men proceeds from the vanity of believing human ... and even tormenting himself sometimes with thoughts of a thousand matters which he has nothing to do with ; he is ...
THE truth of the matter is ; all this weakness even of those wisest men proceeds from the vanity of believing human ... and even tormenting himself sometimes with thoughts of a thousand matters which he has nothing to do with ; he is ...
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Yet I would not be understood to discourage , or the least undervalue Learning , where it tends to any manner of usefulness ; only to bridle a little that arrogant humour of imagining ourselves capable of knowing the greatest matters ...
Yet I would not be understood to discourage , or the least undervalue Learning , where it tends to any manner of usefulness ; only to bridle a little that arrogant humour of imagining ourselves capable of knowing the greatest matters ...
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A SHORT LIFE OF THE DUKE | 11 |
Loves SLAVERY AND OTHER POEMS page | 27 |
ON FRIENDSHIP page | 65 |
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