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The Brighton gleaner; or, General repository of literary selections, general ... - Page 91
1823
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The Spectator; in Miniature: Being a Collection of the Principal ..., Volume 1

1808 - 306 pages
...they d run ? Not one will move, Though proffer'd to he happy from ahove. HORNECK. |T is a celehrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a puhlic stock, in order to he equally distrihuted among the whole species, those who now think themselves...
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The Spectator, Volume 14

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 272 pages
...you believe they'd run ? Not one will move, Though proffer'd to be happy from above. HORNECK. It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further in the motto of my paper, which implies, that the hardships or misfortunes which we lie under are more...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 5

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 522 pages
...Vos hinc mutatis discedite partibus. Eja, Quid statis f Nolint. Atqui licet esse bcatis. HOR. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further in the motto of my paper, which implies that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under, are more easy...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, a New Ed., with ..., Volume 5

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 522 pages
...Vos hinc mutatis discedite partibus. Eja, Staid statis f Nolint. Atqui licet esse beatii. HOE. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...whole species, those who now think themselves the most urihappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of, before that which would fall to them...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 274 pages
...you believe they'd run ? Not one will move, Though proffer*d to be happy from above. HORNBCK. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...equally distributed among the whole species, those who DOW think themselves, the most unhappy would prefer the share they are already possessed of before...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 11-12

British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...you believe they'd run ? Not one will move, Though proffer'd to be happy from above. HORKECK, IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further in the motto of my paper which implies, that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under, are more easy...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]. With hist. and biogr ..., Volume 8

Spectator The - 1823 - 352 pages
...you believe they'd run r Not one will move, Though proffer'd to be happy from above. HORNECK. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further in the motto of my paper, which implies, that the hardships or misfortunes which we lie under are more...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 252 pages
...suppliant to enjoy the promis'd bliss: ' Though profier'd to be happy from above.—HOBNKCK. IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...division. Horace has carried this thought a great deal farther in the motto of my paper, which implies, that the hardships or misfortunes we lie under are...
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Handbuch der englischen sprache und literature, Volume 1

H. Nolte - 1823 - 646 pages
...objecerit, ilia Content us vivat : luudut diversa sequentesï etc. *"') , Ног. Sat. I. ivi I»tua celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes...most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possess'd of, before that which would fall to them by such a division. Horace has carried this thought...
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Sequel to the English Reader: Or, Elegant Selections in Prose and Poetry ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...the sides of it. SECTION III. Endeavours of mankind to get rid of their burdtra ; a, dream.* IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the...Horace has carried this thought a great deal further : he says that the hardships or Misfortunes which we lie under, are more easy to us than those of any...
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