Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young, Ausgabe 10G. Nicholson, 1796 - 20 Seiten |
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... thoughts with so much plainness flow , Their sense - unletter'd infancy may know ; Yet to such height is all their plainness wrought , Wit may admire , and learned pride be taught . Courteous Reader , I have heard , that nothing gives ...
... thoughts with so much plainness flow , Their sense - unletter'd infancy may know ; Yet to such height is all their plainness wrought , Wit may admire , and learned pride be taught . Courteous Reader , I have heard , that nothing gives ...
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... thought a hard government that should tax its people one - tenth part of their time to be employed in its service ; but idle- ness taxes many of us much more ; sloth , by bringing on diseases , absolutely shortens life . " Sloth , like ...
... thought a hard government that should tax its people one - tenth part of their time to be employed in its service ; but idle- ness taxes many of us much more ; sloth , by bringing on diseases , absolutely shortens life . " Sloth , like ...
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... be at • present indifferent , sure it will then be execrable . ' This thought embittered every reflection ; till , at last , with all the serenity of perverted reason , he ended the debate with a pistol ! Had this self - deluded.
... be at • present indifferent , sure it will then be execrable . ' This thought embittered every reflection ; till , at last , with all the serenity of perverted reason , he ended the debate with a pistol ! Had this self - deluded.
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... thought cross - purposes the highest stretch of human wit , and questions and commands the most rational way of spending the evening . Hap- py , could so charming an illusion still continue ! I find that age and knowledge only ...
... thought cross - purposes the highest stretch of human wit , and questions and commands the most rational way of spending the evening . Hap- py , could so charming an illusion still continue ! I find that age and knowledge only ...
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... thought him , from his insensibility , a fool , he was such an ideot , as philosophers should wish to imitate ; for all philosophy is only forcing the trade of happiness , when Nature seems to deny the means . They who , like our slave ...
... thought him , from his insensibility , a fool , he was such an ideot , as philosophers should wish to imitate ; for all philosophy is only forcing the trade of happiness , when Nature seems to deny the means . They who , like our slave ...
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Almanack animal without feathers animating some happier ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD appears ard says aspiring disposition auction beauteous feathers burst the prison callow infancy Chinvang creditor diligence disposition and unbounded distress dress EDWARD PERCIVAL ENDEARED BY AGE ENJOYMENTS OF EARLY EPITAPH Father Abraham fledged pinions folly fool FRENCH OF GANGANELLI friends frugality GOLDSMITH grated prison happier form happy Elysium harmonious sorrow hath health to enjoy heap of beauteous heard to petition hope for retribution hope of animating humour idle indignant soul burst innocence can hope keep left a lifeless legged animal lifeless heap live Mathematician Mathematics mour ness never oft-removed person of unblemished philosophy pitiless hands pleasure Poor Dick Poor Rich Poor Richard says pride purse RICHARD ACANTHUS RICHARD SAUNDERS rough and pitiless run in debt Sloth sure thee thing thou tired with fruitless unalienable rights undoubted charter view those fields violent clamours WEALTH