The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... Europe ; it is debated , whether arts and sciences are more serviceable or prejudicial to man- kind . They who maintain the cause of literature , endeavour to prove their usefulness from the impossi- bility of a large number of men ...
... Europe ; it is debated , whether arts and sciences are more serviceable or prejudicial to man- kind . They who maintain the cause of literature , endeavour to prove their usefulness from the impossi- bility of a large number of men ...
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... European , would be a torment to the precari- ous tenant of an Asiatic wild . Let me , to prove this , transport the imagination for a moment to the midst of a forest in Siberia . There we behold the inhabitant , poor indeed , but ...
... European , would be a torment to the precari- ous tenant of an Asiatic wild . Let me , to prove this , transport the imagination for a moment to the midst of a forest in Siberia . There we behold the inhabitant , poor indeed , but ...
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... European sagacity . More extended / knowledge would only serve to render him unhappy , it might lend a ray to show him the misery of his si- tuation , but could not guide him in his efforts to avoid it . Ignorance is the happiness of ...
... European sagacity . More extended / knowledge would only serve to render him unhappy , it might lend a ray to show him the misery of his si- tuation , but could not guide him in his efforts to avoid it . Ignorance is the happiness of ...
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... Europe . The consequence has shown , that the country was as yet unfit to receive them ; they languished for a time with a sort of exotic malady , every day degenerated from themselves , and at last , instead of rendering the country ...
... Europe . The consequence has shown , that the country was as yet unfit to receive them ; they languished for a time with a sort of exotic malady , every day degenerated from themselves , and at last , instead of rendering the country ...
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... Europe once more amicably adjusted ; I am an ene- my to nothing in this good world but war ; I hate fighting between rival states ; I hate it between man and man ; I hate fighting even between women . I already informed you , that while ...
... Europe once more amicably adjusted ; I am an ene- my to nothing in this good world but war ; I hate fighting between rival states ; I hate it between man and man ; I hate fighting even between women . I already informed you , that while ...
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