The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Հատոր 44A. Constable, 1826 |
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... labour and skill are employed in avoiding the natural and usual employ- ment of the personal pronouns , either of which must have refer- red exclusively to one sex . The writer of the Preface ( Dr Fell ) was therefore certainly desirous ...
... labour and skill are employed in avoiding the natural and usual employ- ment of the personal pronouns , either of which must have refer- red exclusively to one sex . The writer of the Preface ( Dr Fell ) was therefore certainly desirous ...
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... labour of lexicon and dictionary is the most in- tolerable . Nor is there a greater object of compassion than a fine boy , full of animal spirits , set down in a bright sunny day , with an heap of unknown words before him , to be turned ...
... labour of lexicon and dictionary is the most in- tolerable . Nor is there a greater object of compassion than a fine boy , full of animal spirits , set down in a bright sunny day , with an heap of unknown words before him , to be turned ...
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... labour here spared is of the most irksome nature ; and it is spared at a time of life the most averse to such labour : and so painful is this labour to many boys , that it forms an insuperable obstacle to their pro- gress . They ...
... labour here spared is of the most irksome nature ; and it is spared at a time of life the most averse to such labour : and so painful is this labour to many boys , that it forms an insuperable obstacle to their pro- gress . They ...
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... labour . We are so resolute and in- dustrious in raising up impediments which ought to be over- come , that there is a sort of suspicion against the removal of these impediments , and a notion that the advantage is not fairly come by ...
... labour . We are so resolute and in- dustrious in raising up impediments which ought to be over- come , that there is a sort of suspicion against the removal of these impediments , and a notion that the advantage is not fairly come by ...
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... labour . There is no dread of any lack of difficulties . Abridge intellectual labour by any process you please - multiply mechanical powers to any extent there will be sufficient , and infinitely more than sufficient , of laborious ...
... labour . There is no dread of any lack of difficulties . Abridge intellectual labour by any process you please - multiply mechanical powers to any extent there will be sufficient , and infinitely more than sufficient , of laborious ...
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