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1 Int | spent the last period of his life, from 1758 to 1778, on his 2 Int | seen that Voltaire's active life covers nearly the whole 3 I | intemperance. I never in my life saw a more noble or a more 4 III | age, irreproachable in his life and conduct, and a holy 5 V | very late, at a time of life when men are sensible of 6 VIII | that great monarch of his life. Weigh, I say, all these 7 XI | violent degree twice in his life. They observed farther, 8 XI | therefore, to preserve the life and beauty of their children, 9 XI | most favourable season of life, and as many more wear the 10 XI | are not the French fond of life, and is beauty so inconsiderable 11 XIV | singular person both in private life and in his manner of reasoning. 12 XIV | He embraced a military life for some time, and afterwards 13 XIV | progress of Sir Isaac Newton's life was quite different. He 14 XVIII| makes a calamity of so long life: For who would bear the 15 XVIII| and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something 16 XVIII| follows:~"When I consider life, 't is all a cheat, Yet 17 XVIII| remain, And from the dregs of life think to receive What the 18 XIX | gentleman, who passed his life among persons of the highest 19 XIX | and come to the verge of life when I knew him. Mr. Congreve 20 XIX | of a gentleman who led a life of plainness and simplicity. 21 XX | because their condition of life requires a cultivated and 22 XXI | Infinite; Comparing his short life, void of all rest, To the 23 XXIV | algebraist spends his whole life in searching for astonishing