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" Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I choose for my devotions: but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget the... "
Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: And His Cato Major, an Essay on Old ... - Page 258
by Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 343 pages
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 314 pages
...mvself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also...they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed, that men sometimes...
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Select British Classics, Volume 17

1803 - 408 pages
...myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reasor is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also...they forget the story, and can. only relate to our awaked souls a confused and bfoken tale of that that has passed Thus it is observed that men sometimes,...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also...they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that hath passed. The Heligio Medici was, on its publication,...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also...my devotions ; but our grosser memories have then sq little hold of our abstracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to...
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The British Essayists;: Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 318 pages
...faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would 1 choose for my devotions; but our grosser memories...they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed that men sometimes,...
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The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle ..., Volume 1

Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...would I chouse for my devotions; imt our grusser memories have then so little hold of our ahstracted understandings, that they forget the story, and can only relate to our awakened souls a confused aod hroken taU: of that that has parsed. Thus it is ohserved, that men sometimes, upon the hour of...
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The Theory of Dreams: In which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers ..., Volume 2

Robert Gray - 1808 - 170 pages
...myself awake at the conceits thereof: were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also •would I chuse for my devotions : but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,...
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The Theory of Dreams: In which an Inquiry is Made Into the Powers and ...

Robert Gray - 1808 - 362 pages
...myself awake at the conceits thereof: were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams; and this time also would I chuse for my devotions: but our grosser memories have then so little hold of our abstracted understandings,...
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The Spectator, Volume 8

Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele - 1810 - 314 pages
...myself awake at the conceits thereof. Were my memory as faithful as my reason is then fruitful, I would never study but in my dreams ; and this time also...they forget the story, and can only relate to our awaked souls a confused and broken tale of that that has passed. Thus it is observed that men sometimes,...
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