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... everything that can befall me . I would not anticipate the relish of any hap- piness , nor feel the weight of any misery , before it actually arrives . I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors ...
... everything that can befall me . I would not anticipate the relish of any hap- piness , nor feel the weight of any misery , before it actually arrives . I know but one way of fortifying my soul against these gloomy presages and terrors ...
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... everything that is showy and superficial ; and on the numberless evils that befall the sex , from this light fantastical disposition . I myself remember a young lady that was very warmly solicited by a couple of importunate rivals , who ...
... everything that is showy and superficial ; and on the numberless evils that befall the sex , from this light fantastical disposition . I myself remember a young lady that was very warmly solicited by a couple of importunate rivals , who ...
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... everything it wants within itself , and receives no addition from multi- tudes of witnesses and spectators . On the contrary false happiness loves to be in a crowd , and to draw the eyes of the world upon her . She does not receive any ...
... everything it wants within itself , and receives no addition from multi- tudes of witnesses and spectators . On the contrary false happiness loves to be in a crowd , and to draw the eyes of the world upon her . She does not receive any ...
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... everything that is praiseworthy , will be made the sub- ject of ridicule and buffoonery . It is impossible to enumerate the evils which arise from these arrows that fly in the dark ; and I know no other excuse that is or can be made for ...
... everything that is praiseworthy , will be made the sub- ject of ridicule and buffoonery . It is impossible to enumerate the evils which arise from these arrows that fly in the dark ; and I know no other excuse that is or can be made for ...
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... everything I undertake . When I relieve merit from discountenance , when I assist a friendless person , when I produce concealed worth , I am displeased with myself , for having designed to leave the world in order to be virtuous . I am ...
... everything I undertake . When I relieve merit from discountenance , when I assist a friendless person , when I produce concealed worth , I am displeased with myself , for having designed to leave the world in order to be virtuous . I am ...
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Page 132 - OH THAT I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me; When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness...
Page 338 - Though in the paths of death I tread, With gloomy horrors overspread, My steadfast heart shall fear no ill, For thou, O Lord, art with me still ; Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, And guide me through the dreadful shade.
Page xiii - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Page 205 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides, Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe, And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And, if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free...
Page 156 - What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero, the wise, the good, or the great man, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have dis-interred, and have brought to light.
Page 407 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page xx - A general Trader of good Sense is pleasanter Company than a general Scholar ;' and Sir ANDREW having a natural unaffected Eloquence, the Perspicuity of his Discourse gives the same Pleasure that Wit would in another Man. He has made his...
Page 361 - Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches ; feed me with food convenient for me: lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
Page xviii - ... his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse, which, in his merry humours, he tells us, has been in and out twelve times since he first wore it.
Page 312 - But there is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty, which immediately diffuses a secret satisfaction and complacency through the imagination, and gives a finishing to any thing that is great or uncommon. The very first discovery of it strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.