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The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart: Dissertation : exhibiting the ... - Page 81
by Dugald Stewart - 1860
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and...use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a tarrasse, for a wandering and variable...
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The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book

Hugh Gawthrop - 1847 - 184 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of man : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit,...
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The Literary Emporium, Volumes 1-2

1847 - 434 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to givs a true account of their gift of reason for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate...
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British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review: Or, Quarterly ..., Volume 4

1849 - 612 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...use of men ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 3; Volume 9

1849 - 736 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...use of men : as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrasse for a wandering and variable...
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The American Whig Review

1849 - 1428 pages
...variety and delight ; sometimes for ornament and reputation ; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction ; and most times for lucre and...benefit and use of men : as if there were sought in knowiedge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrasse for a wandering...
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The Prisoners' Friend: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Criminal ..., Volume 1

1849 - 610 pages
...sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; but seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift...use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirits; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable...
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Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction, Volume 3

Henry Barnard - 1849 - 580 pages
...knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon. &c., .... seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift...use of men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., &c., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man 1 s...
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Annual Report on Public Schools in Rhode Island

1849 - 580 pages
...knowledge ; for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon, &c., .... seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift...use of men, as if there were sought in knowledge a couch. &c., «be., and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man? s...
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Thoughts on the conduct of the understanding

Basil Montagu - 1849 - 284 pages
...with variety and delight, sometimes for ornament and reputation, sometimes to enable us to victory of wit and contradiction, and most times for lucre and...profession, and seldom sincerely to give a true account of our gift of reason for the benefit and use of man ; as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon...
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