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... nature or fortune finds em ployment for those , who would not have known how to procure it for themselves . He whose min is engaged by the acquisition or improvement of fortune , not only escapes the insipidity of indiffer ence , and ...
... nature or fortune finds em ployment for those , who would not have known how to procure it for themselves . He whose min is engaged by the acquisition or improvement of fortune , not only escapes the insipidity of indiffer ence , and ...
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... nature , and to which even the wise are liable ! If I should judge of that part of life which lies before me , by that which I have already seen , the prospect is hideous . Experience tells me , that my past enjoyments have brought no ...
... nature , and to which even the wise are liable ! If I should judge of that part of life which lies before me , by that which I have already seen , the prospect is hideous . Experience tells me , that my past enjoyments have brought no ...
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On the Duties of the Young. 6 caying Nature , and the consciousness of surviving eve ry pleasure , would , at once induce him , with his own hand , to terminate the scene of misery : but , happily , the contempt of death forsakes him at ...
On the Duties of the Young. 6 caying Nature , and the consciousness of surviving eve ry pleasure , would , at once induce him , with his own hand , to terminate the scene of misery : but , happily , the contempt of death forsakes him at ...
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... natural to retain a tender regard for the country on which we have imprinted our first steps , and where we have passed years , the memory of which is always dear , because they were the preludes of life . I speak here of my infancy ...
... natural to retain a tender regard for the country on which we have imprinted our first steps , and where we have passed years , the memory of which is always dear , because they were the preludes of life . I speak here of my infancy ...
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... nature seemed capable of affording pleas- ure . 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 ...
... nature seemed capable of affording pleas- ure . 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 ...
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Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young, Issue 10 Hugh Blair,Rollin,Thomas Percival No preview available - 2016 |
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Almanack animal without feathers animating some happier ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD appears ard says aspiring disposition auction beauteous feathers burst the prison callow infancy Chinvang creditor diligence disposition and unbounded distress dress EDWARD PERCIVAL ENDEARED BY AGE ENJOYMENTS OF EARLY EPITAPH Father Abraham fledged pinions folly fool FRENCH OF GANGANELLI friends frugality GOLDSMITH grated prison happier form happy Elysium harmonious sorrow hath health to enjoy heap of beauteous heard to petition hope for retribution hope of animating humour idle indignant soul burst innocence can hope keep left a lifeless legged animal lifeless heap live Mathematician Mathematics mour ness never oft-removed person of unblemished philosophy pitiless hands pleasure Poor Dick Poor Rich Poor Richard says pride purse RICHARD ACANTHUS RICHARD SAUNDERS rough and pitiless run in debt Sloth sure thee thing thou tired with fruitless unalienable rights undoubted charter view those fields violent clamours WEALTH