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The Spectator - Page 181
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]; with notes, and a general index

Spectator The - 1811 - 802 pages
...every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein (hat TUBS through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, \vhidi-without such helps are never able to make tbeir appearance. If my reader will give me leave...
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The Arts and Sciences Abridged: With a Selection of Pieces, from Celebrated ...

Charles Peirce - Textbooks - 1811 - 266 pages
...evety ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the. body .of it. "Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out to view. every latent virtue and per* faction, which without such help*,, are never able to make \eir appearance. If my reader will...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1812 - 378 pages
...every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of It. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind* draws out...every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 2

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out...every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...every ornamental cloud, fpot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education, after the fame manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out...appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the allusion fo foon upon him, I fhall make ufe of the fame inftance to illuftrate the force of education,...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education', after the same manner, whenJt works upon a noble mind, •draws out to view every latent virtue and perfection, whicli, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave...
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Elegant extracts, Volume 55

Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out...every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the...
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The beauties of The Spectator 2nd ed., revised and enlarged with The vision ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 372 pages
...every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. Education , after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out...every latent virtue and perfection , which , without such helps , 'are never able to make their appearance. If my reader will give me leave to change the...
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Dufief's Nature Displayed in Her Mode of Teaching Language to Man; Or, A New ...

Nicolas Gouin Dufief - English language - 1817 - 594 pages
...every ornamental cloud, spot, and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education, after thç same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out...view every latent virtue and perfection which without such helps are never able to make their appearance. • If my reader will give me leave to change the...
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The New Free-mason's Monitor: Or, Masonic Guide. For the Direction of ...

James Hardie - Freemasonry - 1818 - 392 pages
...discovers ewry ornamental cloud, spot and vein, that runs through the body of it. Education, after the same manner, when it works upon a noble mind, draws out...every latent virtue and perfection, which, without such helps, are never able to make their appearance." The mind, like the marble in the quarry, is in...
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