Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality, Том 6author, 1797 |
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... thofe are not happy who poffefs , in proportion as thofe are wretched who beftow , how vain a dream is the life of man ! and if there is , indeed , fuch difference in the value of existence , how fhall we acquit of partiality the hand ...
... thofe are not happy who poffefs , in proportion as thofe are wretched who beftow , how vain a dream is the life of man ! and if there is , indeed , fuch difference in the value of existence , how fhall we acquit of partiality the hand ...
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... thofe actions which are allied to Benevolence , Compaffion , and Juftice . Such were my thoughts on a very recent tranfaction , described in the following short nar- rative . Eumenius , a barrifter of confiderable eminence in Lincoln's ...
... thofe actions which are allied to Benevolence , Compaffion , and Juftice . Such were my thoughts on a very recent tranfaction , described in the following short nar- rative . Eumenius , a barrifter of confiderable eminence in Lincoln's ...
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... thofe of other men ; when it was found to be just the common fize . He permitted all the animals to make reprifals on the body of their deftroyer ; but before one in ten thousand could their ( 34 ) moon Rhamazan, I was fleeping under ...
... thofe of other men ; when it was found to be just the common fize . He permitted all the animals to make reprifals on the body of their deftroyer ; but before one in ten thousand could their ( 34 ) moon Rhamazan, I was fleeping under ...
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... was again affailed by the wretch , who had produced it only to faciliate her fuccefs . And let not thofe , before whom the path of virtue has been strewed with flowers , flowers , and every thorn removed by profperity , too ( 100 )
... was again affailed by the wretch , who had produced it only to faciliate her fuccefs . And let not thofe , before whom the path of virtue has been strewed with flowers , flowers , and every thorn removed by profperity , too ( 100 )
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... Thofe But few can read its fecret leffons . who can , know that Providence is just and uni- form . They are fenfible that content , its choicest gift , is the reward only of the virtuous . Such alone deserve , and on fuch only it ...
... Thofe But few can read its fecret leffons . who can , know that Providence is just and uni- form . They are fenfible that content , its choicest gift , is the reward only of the virtuous . Such alone deserve , and on fuch only it ...
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accompliſhments addreffed affured againſt almoſt ANECDOTE anſwer appeared aſked beauty becauſe behaviour beſt buſineſs cauſe charms Cinq Mars confequence confiderable converfation defigns defire diftrefs diſappointed diſcovered drefs Eumenius eyes faid fame faſhion father fatisfaction fays fcenes feemed feen felves fenfe fenfible fent feveral fhall fhort fhould fide fince firft firſt fituation fome fometimes foon forrow fortune foul fpirits friendſhip ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffered fufficient fuperior fupport fure furprize greateſt happineſs heart herſelf himſelf honour houſe huſband increaſe juft lady laft laſt leaſt lefs Licinius Lord manner marriage meaſure mind miſtreſs moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary obferved occafion ourſelves paffed paffion perfon pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed prefent purpoſe racter raiſed reafon reflect refolved ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſtate ſtep thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thought thouſand tion underſtanding uſe vifit virtue whofe whoſe wiſh
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Страница 247 - Know, all the good that individuals find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence But health consists with temperance alone ; And peace, oh virtue ! peace is all thy own.
Страница 122 - A poet, blest beyond the poet's fate, Whom Heaven kept sacred from the Proud and Great : Foe to loud praise, and friend to learned ease, Content with science in the vale of peace. Calmly he look'd on either life ; and here Saw nothing to regret, or there to fear ; From Nature's temperate feast rose satisfied, Thank'd Heaven that he had liv'd, and that he died.
Страница 248 - What makes all physical or moral ill ? There deviates nature, and here wanders will. God sends not ill ; if rightly understood, Or partial ill is universal good, Or change admits, or nature lets it fall, Short, and but rare, till man improv'd it all.
Страница 248 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
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Страница 248 - Good, from each object, from each place acquir'd, For ever exercis'd, yet never tir'd; Never elated while one man's...
Страница 40 - And not a cloud o'ercafts the folemn fcene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And ftars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole : O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure...
Страница 248 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is blest in what it takes, and what it gives; The joy unequal'd, if its end it gain, And if it lose, attended with no pain: Without satiety, tho...
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Страница 8 - remember what thou hast seen, and let this memorial be written upon the tablets of thy heart. Remember, Almet, that the world in which thou art placed, is but the road to another; and that happiness depends not upon the path, but the end: the value of this period of thy existence is fixed by hope and fear.