Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...: Posthumous and other writingsH. Colburn, 1819 |
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... happiness to - morrow , next week , or next year ; for , as we all wish to live , we are obliged by reason to take as much care for our future , as our present happiness , and not build one upon the ruins of the other : but if through ...
... happiness to - morrow , next week , or next year ; for , as we all wish to live , we are obliged by reason to take as much care for our future , as our present happiness , and not build one upon the ruins of the other : but if through ...
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... happiness , like the rest of the animal creation , in the gratification of sense . Hor . I did so : but in our last conversation , when walking upon the brow of this hill , and look- ing down on that broad rapid river , and yon widely ...
... happiness , like the rest of the animal creation , in the gratification of sense . Hor . I did so : but in our last conversation , when walking upon the brow of this hill , and look- ing down on that broad rapid river , and yon widely ...
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... happiness ? or rather , do not you find the pleasure grow upon you by repe- tition , and that it is greater in the reflection than in the act itself ? Is there a pleasure upon earth to be compared with that which arises from the sense ...
... happiness ? or rather , do not you find the pleasure grow upon you by repe- tition , and that it is greater in the reflection than in the act itself ? Is there a pleasure upon earth to be compared with that which arises from the sense ...
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... happiness or chief good consists in acting up to their chief faculty , or that faculty which distin- guishes them from all creatures of a different spe- cies . The chief faculty in man is his reason 74 WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
... happiness or chief good consists in acting up to their chief faculty , or that faculty which distin- guishes them from all creatures of a different spe- cies . The chief faculty in man is his reason 74 WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN .
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... happiness ; and these actions , by way of distinction , we call actions morally good . Hor . You speak very clearly , Philocles ; but , that no difficulty may remain on my mind , pray tell me what is the real difference between natural ...
... happiness ; and these actions , by way of distinction , we call actions morally good . Hor . You speak very clearly , Philocles ; but , that no difficulty may remain on my mind , pray tell me what is the real difference between natural ...
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