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The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes - Page 170
by George Lillie Craik - 1831 - 3 pages
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal

1824 - 564 pages
...such as dignify our nature as much as they contribute to our repose and fortune ; for nothing can be so unworthy of a well-composed soul, as to pass away...our species ; if not for their sakes, yet very much for our own. Think what my feelings must be, from my unfeigned regard, and from my wishes that your...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 16

1810 - 538 pages
...such as dignify our nature as much as they contribute to our repose and fortune : for nothing can be so unworthy of a well-composed soul as to pass away...scuffling with every one about us'. Again and again, dear Barry, we must be at peace with our specie1; ; if not for their jakes, yet very much for our own,...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 121

1865 - 632 pages
...wisely said by a great man*, though himself not quite immaculate in this respect, that ' we must live at peace with our species, if not ' for their sakes, yet very much for our own.' The man, however gifted and eminent he may be, who recklessly wounds the feelings and...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 16

1810 - 544 pages
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Select Reviews of Literature, Volume 7

1812 - 560 pages
...much as they contribute to our repose and fortune; for nothing can be so unworthy of a well composed soul, as to pass away life in bickerings and litigations,...snarling and scuffling with every one about us. Again and a -itin, dear Barry, we must be at peace with our species; if not for their sakes, yet very much for...
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Select Reviews, and Spirit of the Foreign Magazines, Volume 7

Enos Bronson - 1812 - 562 pages
...in bickering* and litigations, in snarling and scuffling with every one abo' t us. Again and again, dear Barry, we must be at peace with our species; if not for their sakes, yet very mui h for our own. Think what my feelings must be, from my unfeigned regard to you, and from niy wishes...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 8

1821 - 778 pages
...that the arms with which the ill dispositions of the world are to be combated, and the qualities with which it is to be reconciled to us, and we reconciled...again, my dear Barry, we must be at peace with our speciesit' not for their sakes, yet very much for our own. Think what my feelings must be, from my...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 8

1821 - 726 pages
...as dignify our nature as much as they contribute to our repose and fortune ; for nothing can be во unworthy of a well-composed soul as to pass away life...our species— if not for their sakes, yet very much for our own. Think what my feelings must be, from my unfeigned regard to you, and from my wishes that...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 8

1821 - 720 pages
...our repose and fortune ; for nothing can be so unworthy of a well-composed soul as to pass away Ufe in bickerings and litigations —in snarling and scuffling...our species— if not for their sakes, yet very much for our own. Think what my feelings must be, from my unfeigned regard to you, and from my wishes that...
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Biographia Hibernica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Worthies of ..., Volume 1

1821 - 508 pages
...much as they contribute to our repose and fortune ; for nothing can be so unworthy of a well composed soul, as to pass away life in bickerings and litigations,...scuffling with every one about us. Again and again, dear Barry, we must be at peace with our species, if not for their sakcs, yet very much for our own....
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