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...ftriking lecture on the value of time, which was, that whenever he made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that...day might not run out in the idlenefs of fufpenfe. Rambler, v. 2. p. 39. When we have deducted all that is abforbed in fleep, all that is inevitably appropriated...

...linking lecture on the value of time, by informing us, that when he made an appointment, he ex-, petted not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of fufpenfe; and all the plans and enterprizes of De Wit are now of lefs importance to the...

...ftriking lecture on the value of time, by informing us, that when he made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that...perfonal character which reprefents him as careful of bis bealtb, and negligent of bis life. But biography has often been allotted to writers who feem very...

...value of time, by informing us, that when lie made an appointment, he expedited not only the hour, bur the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idlenels of fufpenfe ; and all the plans and enterprizes of De Wit are now of lefs importance to the...

...the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idlenefs of fufpence ; and all the plans and enterprizes of De Wit are now...reprefents him as careful of his health, and negligent of his life. " But biography has often been allotted to writers, who feem very little acquainted with...

...ftriking lecture on the value of time, by informing us, that when he had made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idlenefs of fufpence ; and all the plans and enterprizes of De Wit are now of lefs importance to the world than...

...ftriking lecture on the value of time, by informing us, that when he made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not ruo out in the idlenefs of fufpenie; and all the plans and en* terprizes of De Wit are now of lefs...

...striking lecture on the value of time, by informing us, that when he had made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspence ; and all the plans and enterprises ' Plutarch's Life of Alexander, Langhorne's...

...striking lecture on the value of time, by informing us, that when he had made an appointment, he expected not only the hour, but the minute to be fixed, that the day might not run out in the idleness of suspence ; and all the plans and enterprises of De 'Wit are now of less importance to the...