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The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, Volume 1-2

William Creech

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Description:This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773. ... and sear, they dared not to retaliate. He was not stained with ingratitude to his best benefactors; he attempted not the destruction of the man who had raised him; and, in fine, it could not lie laid of his actions, that the motives which directed them, yere uniformly either flagitious or contemptible. Lord CHESTERFIELD'S Letter, to his Son. LETTER CXXV. Dear Boy, THERE are two sorts of understandings; one of which hinders a man from ever being considerable, and the other commonly makes him ridiculous; I mean the lazy mind, and the trifling, frivolous mind. Yours, I hope, is neither. The lazy mind will not take the trouble to go to the bottom of any thing; but, discouraged by the first difficulties, (and every thing worth, knowing or having is attended with some) stops short, contents itself with easy, and, consequently, superficial knowledge, and prefers a great degree of ignorance to a small degree of trouble. These people either think, or represent, most things as impossible; whereas few things are so, to industry and activity. But difficulties seem to them impossibilities, or, at least, they pretend to think them so, by way of excuse for their laziness. An hour's attention to the fame object is too laborious for them; they take every thing in the light in which it first presents itself, never consider it in all its different views; and, in short, never think it thorough. The consequence of this is, that when they come to speak upon these subjects before people who have considered them with attention, they only discover their own ignorance and laziness, and lay themselves open to answers that put them in confusion. Do not then be discouraged by the first difficulties, but contra audentior ito; and resolve to go to the bottom of all those things, which ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, Volume 1-2. To get started finding The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, Volume 1-2, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773. ... and sear, they dared not to retaliate. He was not stained with ingratitude to his best benefactors; he attempted not the destruction of the man who had raised him; and, in fine, it could not lie laid of his actions, that the motives which directed them, yere uniformly either flagitious or contemptible. Lord CHESTERFIELD'S Letter, to his Son. LETTER CXXV. Dear Boy, THERE are two sorts of understandings; one of which hinders a man from ever being considerable, and the other commonly makes him ridiculous; I mean the lazy mind, and the trifling, frivolous mind. Yours, I hope, is neither. The lazy mind will not take the trouble to go to the bottom of any thing; but, discouraged by the first difficulties, (and every thing worth, knowing or having is attended with some) stops short, contents itself with easy, and, consequently, superficial knowledge, and prefers a great degree of ignorance to a small degree of trouble. These people either think, or represent, most things as impossible; whereas few things are so, to industry and activity. But difficulties seem to them impossibilities, or, at least, they pretend to think them so, by way of excuse for their laziness. An hour's attention to the fame object is too laborious for them; they take every thing in the light in which it first presents itself, never consider it in all its different views; and, in short, never think it thorough. The consequence of this is, that when they come to speak upon these subjects before people who have considered them with attention, they only discover their own ignorance and laziness, and lay themselves open to answers that put them in confusion. Do not then be discouraged by the first difficulties, but contra audentior ito; and resolve to go to the bottom of all those things, which ...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, Volume 1-2. To get started finding The Edinburgh Magazine and Review by a Society of Gentlemen, Volume 1-2, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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