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... thing becomes capable of affording entertain ment , and distress will almost want a name . Every occurrence passes in review like the figures in a pro- cession ; some may be awkward , others ill - dressed ; but none but a fool is for ...
... thing becomes capable of affording entertain ment , and distress will almost want a name . Every occurrence passes in review like the figures in a pro- cession ; some may be awkward , others ill - dressed ; but none but a fool is for ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... thing that was methodical ; and I pay but little respect to those works which are only the exercises of imagination . We have three principal sciences , which I compare to the three es- sential parts of the human conposition : -Theology ...
... thing that was methodical ; and I pay but little respect to those works which are only the exercises of imagination . We have three principal sciences , which I compare to the three es- sential parts of the human conposition : -Theology ...
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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