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(5 §. English practice
With how deplorable a degree of success the party has
been at crowned the whole community feels the feelings of the may/the community but too
acutely unquestionably In his almostcompleat a state of confusion mental deformation
the most intelligent of writers could for so many
have remained insensibly to the most marked bending
line that distinguish separate vice from virtue swallowing lies upon
lies and bring down with unabatable revenue before the
men who form them into their mouths. The head Heads thus
infeebled, and though that infeeblement hearts corrupted.
Absurdity and nonsense — but in the superlative degree,
worshipped under the name of learning: vice in its most
sordid form, under the name of virtue.
Of this what then All then what Of the object of this worship what then has
been in reality is — open time in vague will power. wealth and power in Nor yet
has learning been altogether wanting to it. Learning? but
of what sort? of that which consists in an acquaintance
more or less with the manners and now swelling
heap mass of absurdity and nonsense. the whole looks
but the hand be claimed imputed at one of the whole mass, it
would be but so much more to the being started furnished with
real and useful knowledge with this sort of matter in the denomination of which
when the word learning the application was without prefunction be supplied employed.
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