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Yet experience and sensation in vain persuade ; hope , more powerful than
either , dresses out the distant prospect in fancied beauty ; some happiness , in
long perspec - * * tive , still beckons me to pursue ; and like a losing gamester ,
every ...
Yet experience and sensation in vain persuade ; hope , more powerful than
either , dresses out the distant prospect in fancied beauty ; some happiness , in
long perspec - * * tive , still beckons me to pursue ; and like a losing gamester ,
every ...
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Life opened all her treasures before him , and promised a long succession of
future happiness . He came , tasted of the entertainment , but was disgusted even
at the beginning . He professed an aversion to living ; was tired of walking round
...
Life opened all her treasures before him , and promised a long succession of
future happiness . He came , tasted of the entertainment , but was disgusted even
at the beginning . He professed an aversion to living ; was tired of walking round
...
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I then made no refinements on happiness , but could be pleased with the most
awkward efforts of rustic mirth ; thought cross - purposes the highest stretch of
human wit , and questions and commands the most rational way of spending the
...
I then made no refinements on happiness , but could be pleased with the most
awkward efforts of rustic mirth ; thought cross - purposes the highest stretch of
human wit , and questions and commands the most rational way of spending the
...
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Every thing furnished him with an opportunity of mirth ; and though some thought
him , from his insensibility , a fool , he was such an ideot , as philosophers should
wish to imitate ; for all philosophy is only forcing the trade of happiness , when ...
Every thing furnished him with an opportunity of mirth ; and though some thought
him , from his insensibility , a fool , he was such an ideot , as philosophers should
wish to imitate ; for all philosophy is only forcing the trade of happiness , when ...
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It matters not whether our good humour be construed by others into insensibility ,
or even idi . otism ; it is happiness to ourselves ; and none but a fool would
measure his satisfaction by what the world thinks of it . For my own part , I never
pass ...
It matters not whether our good humour be construed by others into insensibility ,
or even idi . otism ; it is happiness to ourselves ; and none but a fool would
measure his satisfaction by what the world thinks of it . For my own part , I never
pass ...
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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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