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... practical Essays from those writers whose entire works cannot safely be trusted in the hands of inexperienced youth ; and thus in a small compass to form an elegant MANUAL of moral , philosophical , and critical compositions in.
... practical Essays from those writers whose entire works cannot safely be trusted in the hands of inexperienced youth ; and thus in a small compass to form an elegant MANUAL of moral , philosophical , and critical compositions in.
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... Youth and Age- Lord Bacon's Essays . 9. Suspicion - The same 10. Praise - The same 11. Myself Cowley's - Writings . 19 31 • 34 · 37 · 39 Miscellaneous 42 12. Talent for Humour and Peculiarities of the English Nation - from Sir Wm ...
... Youth and Age- Lord Bacon's Essays . 9. Suspicion - The same 10. Praise - The same 11. Myself Cowley's - Writings . 19 31 • 34 · 37 · 39 Miscellaneous 42 12. Talent for Humour and Peculiarities of the English Nation - from Sir Wm ...
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... youth is like the first cogita- tions , not so wise as the second ; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages ; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old , and imaginations , stream into their minds ...
... youth is like the first cogita- tions , not so wise as the second ; for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in ages ; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old , and imaginations , stream into their minds ...
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... youth , as it is seen in Augustus Cæsar , Cosmo , duke of Florence , Gaston de Foix , and others . On the other hand ... youth not merely in errors but in mad- nesses . that will neither stop nor turn . Men of age YOUTH AND age . 35.
... youth , as it is seen in Augustus Cæsar , Cosmo , duke of Florence , Gaston de Foix , and others . On the other hand ... youth not merely in errors but in mad- nesses . that will neither stop nor turn . Men of age YOUTH AND age . 35.
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... youth will have the preeminence , as age has for the politic : and certainly the more we drink of the world the more ... youth than in age , such as is a fluent and luxuriant speech , which well becomes youth but not age . Tully says of ...
... youth will have the preeminence , as age has for the politic : and certainly the more we drink of the world the more ... youth than in age , such as is a fluent and luxuriant speech , which well becomes youth but not age . Tully says of ...
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