Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 1S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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... mind , is not only easy in his thoughts , but a perfect master of all the powers and faculties of the soul : his ima- § 16. On Cheerfulness . I have always preferred cheerful - gination is always clear , and his ness to mirth . The ...
... mind , is not only easy in his thoughts , but a perfect master of all the powers and faculties of the soul : his ima- § 16. On Cheerfulness . I have always preferred cheerful - gination is always clear , and his ness to mirth . The ...
Page 65
... mind carries along ship . But the reproach is ill founded . with it a check to its constitutional Strength of mind does not consist in vices , by rendering those possessed a peevish temper , in a hard and in- of it peculiarly ...
... mind carries along ship . But the reproach is ill founded . with it a check to its constitutional Strength of mind does not consist in vices , by rendering those possessed a peevish temper , in a hard and in- of it peculiarly ...
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... mind can multiplying the mental resources , it retire within herself , and expatiate in has a tendency to exalt the character , the cool and quiet walks of contem- and , in some measure , to correct and plation . The author of nature ...
... mind can multiplying the mental resources , it retire within herself , and expatiate in has a tendency to exalt the character , the cool and quiet walks of contem- and , in some measure , to correct and plation . The author of nature ...
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