The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and PoetryJ. D. Bemis and Company, 1822 - 272 páginas |
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Página 38
... enjoyment ? If , with all its troubles , we are in danger of being too much attached to it , how entirely would it have seduced our affections , if no troubles had been mingled with its pleasures ? In seasons of distress or difficulty ...
... enjoyment ? If , with all its troubles , we are in danger of being too much attached to it , how entirely would it have seduced our affections , if no troubles had been mingled with its pleasures ? In seasons of distress or difficulty ...
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... enjoyment of peace , in opposition to uproar and confusion . - Blair . SECTION XIV . Moderation in our wishes recommended . 1. The active mind of man seldom or never rests satisfied with its present condition , how prosperous soever ...
... enjoyment of peace , in opposition to uproar and confusion . - Blair . SECTION XIV . Moderation in our wishes recommended . 1. The active mind of man seldom or never rests satisfied with its present condition , how prosperous soever ...
Página 73
... enjoyment of the comforts of life . But when these wishes are not tempered by reason , they are in danger of precipi- tating us into much extravagance and folly . Desires and wishes are the first springs of action . When they become ...
... enjoyment of the comforts of life . But when these wishes are not tempered by reason , they are in danger of precipi- tating us into much extravagance and folly . Desires and wishes are the first springs of action . When they become ...
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... enjoyment degenerates into disgust , and pleasure is converted into pain . They are strangers to those complaints which flow from spleen , caprice , and all the fantastical distresses of a vitiated mind . While riotous in-. Chap . 5 . 95 ...
... enjoyment degenerates into disgust , and pleasure is converted into pain . They are strangers to those complaints which flow from spleen , caprice , and all the fantastical distresses of a vitiated mind . While riotous in-. Chap . 5 . 95 ...
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... to draw enjoyment , his only resource is in things without . His hopes and fears all hang upon the world . He partakes in all its vicissitudes ; and is moved and 100 Part 1 . The English Reader . On the slavery of vice,
... to draw enjoyment , his only resource is in things without . His hopes and fears all hang upon the world . He partakes in all its vicissitudes ; and is moved and 100 Part 1 . The English Reader . On the slavery of vice,
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Términos y frases comunes
affections Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold blessing Caius Verres character cheerful comfort dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil fall father fear feel folly fortune Fundanus give Greek language ground hand happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n Heraclitus honor hope human indulge inflection innocence Jugurtha kind king labors live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Etna nature never noble Numidia o'er ourselves pain passions pause peace perfect person pleasure possession pow'r praise present pride prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise Roman Senate scene SECTION sense sentence sentiments shade shining Sicily smiles sorrow soul sound spirit stancy suffer temper tempest thee things thou thought tion truth vanity vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise words youth