The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Writers ...Stereotyped, printed and published by H. and E. Phinney, 1829 - 252 sidor |
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... now , with so few causes of grief , we imagine ourselves miserable ? The evil lies in the state of our mind , not in our condition of fortune : and by no alteration of circumstances is likely CAP . I. 19 SELECT SENTENCES .
... now , with so few causes of grief , we imagine ourselves miserable ? The evil lies in the state of our mind , not in our condition of fortune : and by no alteration of circumstances is likely CAP . I. 19 SELECT SENTENCES .
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... fortune : and by no alteration of circumstances is likely to be remedied . When the love of unwarrantable pleasures , and of vicious companions , is allowed to amuse young persons , to engross their time , and to stir up their passions ...
... fortune : and by no alteration of circumstances is likely to be remedied . When the love of unwarrantable pleasures , and of vicious companions , is allowed to amuse young persons , to engross their time , and to stir up their passions ...
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... fortune makes on that scanty proportion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians . Where so much is suffered in common , little room is ...
... fortune makes on that scanty proportion ; it is surprising , that envy should ever have been a prevalent passion among men , much more that it should have prevailed among Christians . Where so much is suffered in common , little room is ...
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... fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty pas- sions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the instruments of the trouble which we endure ...
... fortune and the elements . It is within ourselves that misery has fixed its seat . Our disordered hearts , our guilty pas- sions , our violent prejudices , and misplaced desires , are the instruments of the trouble which we endure ...
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... fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we com → plain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly show , that if its vanity were less , it could not answer the purpose of ...
... fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we com → plain of the vanity of the world , facts plainly show , that if its vanity were less , it could not answer the purpose of ...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers ... Lindley Murray Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1836 |
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Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing bliss breast Caius Verres cheerful dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes father favour fear feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground hand happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n HERACLITUS honour hope human indulge Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery mount Etna nature nature's never night noble Numidia o'er pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect person pleasures possession pow'r praise pride prince proper Pythias racter religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily smiles solitude sorrow soul sound spect spirit spring sweet tears temper tempest thee things thou art thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise youth