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So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times ? We may make these times
better , if we bestir ourselves . “ Industry need not wish , and he that lives upon
hope will die fasting . There are no gains without pains ; then help hands , for I ...
So what signifies wishing and hoping for better times ? We may make these times
better , if we bestir ourselves . “ Industry need not wish , and he that lives upon
hope will die fasting . There are no gains without pains ; then help hands , for I ...
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We are offered , by the terms of this sale , six months ' credit ; and that , perhaps ,
has induced some of us to attend it , because we cannot spare the ready money ,
and hope now to be fine without it . But , ah ! think what you do when you run in ...
We are offered , by the terms of this sale , six months ' credit ; and that , perhaps ,
has induced some of us to attend it , because we cannot spare the ready money ,
and hope now to be fine without it . But , ah ! think what you do when you run in ...
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He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking , has his fatigues first
supported by hope , and afterwards rewarded by joy : he is always moving
towards a certain end , and when he has attained it , an end more distant invites
him a new ...
He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking , has his fatigues first
supported by hope , and afterwards rewarded by joy : he is always moving
towards a certain end , and when he has attained it , an end more distant invites
him a new ...
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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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READER ! if suffering innocence can hope for retribution , deny not to the genile
shade . of this unfortunate captive , the humble , though uncertain , hope of
animating some happier form ; or trying his new fledged pinions in some happy ...
READER ! if suffering innocence can hope for retribution , deny not to the genile
shade . of this unfortunate captive , the humble , though uncertain , hope of
animating some happier form ; or trying his new fledged pinions in some happy ...
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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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