The English Reader Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best Writers ...: With a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good Reading |
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... desires , if no part of it be suffered to lie waste by negligence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out for ... desire to preserve his mind free and tranquil . 7. Eminently pleasing and honourable was the friendship be- tween ...
... desires , if no part of it be suffered to lie waste by negligence , to be overrun with noxious plants , or laid out for ... desire to preserve his mind free and tranquil . 7. Eminently pleasing and honourable was the friendship be- tween ...
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... desire can only be indulged at the expense of its rival . 4. No mortifications which virtue exacts , are more severe than those , which ambition imposes upon the love of ease , pride upon interest , and covetousness upon vanity . Self ...
... desire can only be indulged at the expense of its rival . 4. No mortifications which virtue exacts , are more severe than those , which ambition imposes upon the love of ease , pride upon interest , and covetousness upon vanity . Self ...
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... desire . 6. You have strayed , my friends , from the road which conduets to felicity ; you have dishonoured the native dignity of your souls , in allowing your wishes to terminate on nothing higher than worldly ideas of greatness or ...
... desire . 6. You have strayed , my friends , from the road which conduets to felicity ; you have dishonoured the native dignity of your souls , in allowing your wishes to terminate on nothing higher than worldly ideas of greatness or ...
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of future felicity | 80 |
Cicero against Verres | 91 |
An address to young persons | 100 |
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Alexander Selkirk Antiparos appear attention beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character comfort death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread EARL of STRAFFORD earth enjoy enjoyments envy errours eternity ev'ry evil father feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus gentle give ground Haman happiness hast Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope horrour human inflection innocence Jugurtha king labours LINDLEY MURRAY live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery mount Etna nature nature's never Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfection person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper publick Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shine Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit spring superiour sweet temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth