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Page 306
... Beautiful and the Useful , * which is the subject of the following translation . ] Balzac , the pedant , who views the favorite of the Muses and their works with turned - up nose , assumes too much when he reckons Homer and Virgil ...
... Beautiful and the Useful , * which is the subject of the following translation . ] Balzac , the pedant , who views the favorite of the Muses and their works with turned - up nose , assumes too much when he reckons Homer and Virgil ...
Page 307
... beautiful and the perfect implanted in the breast of man . They would now be immeasura bly below the height to which they have ascended in Europe , if they had been confined within the narrow boundaries of the nec- essary and the useful ...
... beautiful and the perfect implanted in the breast of man . They would now be immeasura bly below the height to which they have ascended in Europe , if they had been confined within the narrow boundaries of the nec- essary and the useful ...
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... beautiful and the good , to wisdom and virtue , and to the adoration of the inscrutable First Cause , the universal Father of all , to recognize and perform whose laws is at the same time his greatest privilege , his first duty , and ...
... beautiful and the good , to wisdom and virtue , and to the adoration of the inscrutable First Cause , the universal Father of all , to recognize and perform whose laws is at the same time his greatest privilege , his first duty , and ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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