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Page 108
Each of those are happy for the next four and twenty hours ; and those who bow
in ranks undistinguished , and by dozens at a time , think they have very good
prospects , if they may hope to arrive at such notices half a year hence . The
satirist ...
Each of those are happy for the next four and twenty hours ; and those who bow
in ranks undistinguished , and by dozens at a time , think they have very good
prospects , if they may hope to arrive at such notices half a year hence . The
satirist ...
Page 117
Mr. Spectator , THERE is a particular fault which I have ob• served in most of the
moralists in all ages , and that « is , that they are always professing themselves
and • teaching others to be happy . This state is not to be arrived at in this life ...
Mr. Spectator , THERE is a particular fault which I have ob• served in most of the
moralists in all ages , and that « is , that they are always professing themselves
and • teaching others to be happy . This state is not to be arrived at in this life ...
Page 166
... but every man's well wisher ; can look at a prosperous man , with a pleasure in
reflecting that he hopes he is as happy as himself ; and has his mind and his
fortune , as far as prudence will allow , open to the unhappy and to the stranger .
... but every man's well wisher ; can look at a prosperous man , with a pleasure in
reflecting that he hopes he is as happy as himself ; and has his mind and his
fortune , as far as prudence will allow , open to the unhappy and to the stranger .
Page 221
... that order and distinction should be kept in the world , we should be happy , if
those who enjoy the upper stations in it , would endeavour to surpass others in
virtue , as much as in rank , and by their humanity and condescension make their
...
... that order and distinction should be kept in the world , we should be happy , if
those who enjoy the upper stations in it , would endeavour to surpass others in
virtue , as much as in rank , and by their humanity and condescension make their
...
Page 275
As so “ great an addition of labouring hands would produce " this happy
consequence both to the merchant and " the gentleman , our libérality to common
beggars , " and every other obstruction to the increase of lao " bourers , most be
equally ...
As so “ great an addition of labouring hands would produce " this happy
consequence both to the merchant and " the gentleman , our libérality to common
beggars , " and every other obstruction to the increase of lao " bourers , most be
equally ...
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| Title | Select British Classics, Volume 13 Select British Classics |
| Publisher | J. Conrad, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Nov 2006 |
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