The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 4Bohn, 1854 |
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... mind than invention ; yet in dreams it works with that ease and activity , that we are not sensible when the faculty is employed . For instance , I believe every one , some time or other , dreams that he is reading papers , books , or ...
... mind than invention ; yet in dreams it works with that ease and activity , that we are not sensible when the faculty is employed . For instance , I believe every one , some time or other , dreams that he is reading papers , books , or ...
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... mind more play . The soul seems gathered within herself , and recovers that spring which is broke and weakened , when she operates more in concert with the body . The speculations I have here made , if they are not argu- ments , they ...
... mind more play . The soul seems gathered within herself , and recovers that spring which is broke and weakened , when she operates more in concert with the body . The speculations I have here made , if they are not argu- ments , they ...
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... mind . The saint was of a sorrowful countenance , and generally eaten up with spleen and melancholy . A gentleman , who was lately a great ornament to the learned world , has diverted me more than once with an account of the reception ...
... mind . The saint was of a sorrowful countenance , and generally eaten up with spleen and melancholy . A gentleman , who was lately a great ornament to the learned world , has diverted me more than once with an account of the reception ...
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... mind is not only the most lovely , but the most commend- able in a virtuous person . In short , those who represent religion in so unamiable a light , are like the spies sent by Moses to make a discovery of the Land of Promise , when by ...
... mind is not only the most lovely , but the most commend- able in a virtuous person . In short , those who represent religion in so unamiable a light , are like the spies sent by Moses to make a discovery of the Land of Promise , when by ...
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... mind , but to regulate them . It may moderate and restrain , but was not designed to banish gladness from the heart of man . Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures , but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in ...
... mind , but to regulate them . It may moderate and restrain , but was not designed to banish gladness from the heart of man . Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures , but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in ...
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