The Philadelphia Book: Or, Specimens of Metropolitan LiteratureKey & Biddle, 1836 - 380 páginas |
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... pleasure . When the actual condi- tion of the two sexes in civilized society is sedately and broadly examined , the lot of each is seen to have its in- conveniences and its advantages ; and , perhaps , superior- ity cannot be asserted ...
... pleasure . When the actual condi- tion of the two sexes in civilized society is sedately and broadly examined , the lot of each is seen to have its in- conveniences and its advantages ; and , perhaps , superior- ity cannot be asserted ...
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... pleasure , they not only draw the mind from gross and vulgar gratifications ; but finally so entire- ly absorb and purify it ; so quicken its sensibility and re- fine its taste , that pleasures more gross lose their attrac- tions and ...
... pleasure , they not only draw the mind from gross and vulgar gratifications ; but finally so entire- ly absorb and purify it ; so quicken its sensibility and re- fine its taste , that pleasures more gross lose their attrac- tions and ...
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... pleasures of a mind purified by virtue , and cultivated by taste . Can a being capable of such sublime contemplations , and commanding such high sources of pleasure , drop from its dignity into some sink of vice , or be lost in the ...
... pleasures of a mind purified by virtue , and cultivated by taste . Can a being capable of such sublime contemplations , and commanding such high sources of pleasure , drop from its dignity into some sink of vice , or be lost in the ...
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... pleasure they can be- stow . Thus it is that wealth spreads her bounty , even if reluctant , and is compelled , while she gratifies her vanity , to diffuse her enjoyments . Further ; every man has not only the means of gratifi- cation ...
... pleasure they can be- stow . Thus it is that wealth spreads her bounty , even if reluctant , and is compelled , while she gratifies her vanity , to diffuse her enjoyments . Further ; every man has not only the means of gratifi- cation ...
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... , centuries agone , mouldered to imperceptible atoms . How vari- ous ! how inexhaustible is the profit and pleasure to be derived from the studies of antiquity ! 1 THE INDIAN SUMMER . BY JAMES Me HENRY . Twas 86 THE PHILADELPHIA BOOK .
... , centuries agone , mouldered to imperceptible atoms . How vari- ous ! how inexhaustible is the profit and pleasure to be derived from the studies of antiquity ! 1 THE INDIAN SUMMER . BY JAMES Me HENRY . Twas 86 THE PHILADELPHIA BOOK .
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