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Page 64
... meets with provocations and disturbances upon almost every occasion . Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety . Ambition has its disappoint- ments to sour us , but never the good fortune to sa- tisfy us ; its appetite ...
... meets with provocations and disturbances upon almost every occasion . Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety . Ambition has its disappoint- ments to sour us , but never the good fortune to sa- tisfy us ; its appetite ...
Page 72
... meet with persons of such a worthless character as this , it brings to my mind some scraps of Horace : " Nos numerus sumus , et fruges consumere nati . Alcinoique juventus , ........ Cui pulchrum fuit in medios dormire dies , " & c ...
... meet with persons of such a worthless character as this , it brings to my mind some scraps of Horace : " Nos numerus sumus , et fruges consumere nati . Alcinoique juventus , ........ Cui pulchrum fuit in medios dormire dies , " & c ...
Page 89
... meet with another honest man in similar distress , you must pay me by lending this sum to him , enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation , when he shall be able , and shall meet with such another opportunity . I hope it ...
... meet with another honest man in similar distress , you must pay me by lending this sum to him , enjoining him to discharge the debt by a like operation , when he shall be able , and shall meet with such another opportunity . I hope it ...
Page 101
... meet with are become so by neglect of that caution . You ask what I mean . You love stories , and will excuse my telling one of myself . When I was a child , at seven years old , my friends , on a holyday , filled my pocket with cop ...
... meet with are become so by neglect of that caution . You ask what I mean . You love stories , and will excuse my telling one of myself . When I was a child , at seven years old , my friends , on a holyday , filled my pocket with cop ...
Page 103
... meet a man of pleasure sacrificing every laudable improvement of the mind or of his for- tune , to mere corporeal sensations , and ruining his health in their pursuit , " Mistaken man , " says I , 66 you are providing pain for yourself ...
... meet a man of pleasure sacrificing every laudable improvement of the mind or of his for- tune , to mere corporeal sensations , and ruining his health in their pursuit , " Mistaken man , " says I , 66 you are providing pain for yourself ...
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