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I have now lived in solitude and • darkness for more than fifty years , and am
grown - familiar with distress . As yet dazzled with the esplendor of that sun to
which you have restored me , • I have been wandering the streets to find some •
friend ...
I have now lived in solitude and • darkness for more than fifty years , and am
grown - familiar with distress . As yet dazzled with the esplendor of that sun to
which you have restored me , • I have been wandering the streets to find some •
friend ...
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If the soul be happily disposed , every thing becomes capable of affording
eniertain , ment , and distress will almost want a name . Every occurrence passes
in review like the figures in a procession ; some may be awkward , others ill -
dressed ...
If the soul be happily disposed , every thing becomes capable of affording
eniertain , ment , and distress will almost want a name . Every occurrence passes
in review like the figures in a procession ; some may be awkward , others ill -
dressed ...
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They feel , in short , as little anguish at their own distress , or the complaints of
others , as the undertaker though dress . ed in black , feels sorrow at a funeral . Of
all the men I ever read of , the famous Cardinal de Retz possessed this
happiness ...
They feel , in short , as little anguish at their own distress , or the complaints of
others , as the undertaker though dress . ed in black , feels sorrow at a funeral . Of
all the men I ever read of , the famous Cardinal de Retz possessed this
happiness ...
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If she too rejected his addresses , he never thought of retiring into deserts , or
pining in hopeless distress . He persuaded himself , that , instead of loving the
lady , he only fancied that he had loved her ; and so all was well again . When
fortune ...
If she too rejected his addresses , he never thought of retiring into deserts , or
pining in hopeless distress . He persuaded himself , that , instead of loving the
lady , he only fancied that he had loved her ; and so all was well again . When
fortune ...
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| Title | Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young, Issue 10 Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young |
| Publisher | G. Nicholson, 1796 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 16 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 20 pages |
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