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... maturity ceases to seek for mere amusement , and asks to be instructed as well as entertained . As the mature man , who once delighted in toys and tales of the marvellous , forsakes the nursery and the play ground to 28 INTRODUCTORY .
... maturity ceases to seek for mere amusement , and asks to be instructed as well as entertained . As the mature man , who once delighted in toys and tales of the marvellous , forsakes the nursery and the play ground to 28 INTRODUCTORY .
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... delight to contemplate , human nature in its infinite developments , —and the naturalist cannot feel more delight among glittering diamonds and precious stones . It reads with rapid glance , and curiosity never 7 sated , the great ...
... delight to contemplate , human nature in its infinite developments , —and the naturalist cannot feel more delight among glittering diamonds and precious stones . It reads with rapid glance , and curiosity never 7 sated , the great ...
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... is no companionship like that which is created by wisdom and knowledge . In that delightful intercourse , hours are but as minutes , days fly like hours away . These pleasures are in a measure open to all . Once 36 INTRODUCTORY .
... is no companionship like that which is created by wisdom and knowledge . In that delightful intercourse , hours are but as minutes , days fly like hours away . These pleasures are in a measure open to all . Once 36 INTRODUCTORY .
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... delight in each other's society than they can do in that of their own sex . They are thus made indispensable to each other's happiness in every way . Were all women , they would be miserable indeed ; and were all men , they would be no ...
... delight in each other's society than they can do in that of their own sex . They are thus made indispensable to each other's happiness in every way . Were all women , they would be miserable indeed ; and were all men , they would be no ...
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... delight , and the com- forter of man . These sentiments are divine , sacred , unchangeable . Nothing , even the most false and vicious state of society can altogether pervert them . The mission of woman is foreshown almost in the cradle ...
... delight , and the com- forter of man . These sentiments are divine , sacred , unchangeable . Nothing , even the most false and vicious state of society can altogether pervert them . The mission of woman is foreshown almost in the cradle ...
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