Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
8. _my twenty-first speculation_ argues that it is better for a man to go into trade than to enter an over-crowded profession, and reproves 'parents who will not rather choose to place their sons in a way of life where an honest industry cannot but thrive, than in stations whe...
17. _A modern philosopher_. M. Bernard, who quotes the Latin saw, is himself quoted by Bayle in a long discussion appended to the articles on _Pereira_ and _Rosarius_ in his His...
1. Chapter 18. _my twenty-first speculation_ argues that it is better for a man to go into trade than to enter an over-crowded profession, and reproves 'parents who will not rather choose t...
3. Chapter 329. _beagles_. Small hounds formerly employed in hunting the hare. Cf. White's _Selborne_, Letter VI, 'One solitary grey hen was sprung by some beagles in beating for a hare.' T...
2. Chapter 229 et seq. The argument runs: nature has adapted the body to exercise, therefore exercise is necessary to our well-being. This is sound only on the assumptions that everything w...
4. Chapter 4