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... turn at last to virtue , so many violent passions which after- wards rend the heart , and cause all the bitterness and misfortune of life ! What felicity , to have encouraged none but innocent and amiable pro- pensities , to be spared ...
... turn at last to virtue , so many violent passions which after- wards rend the heart , and cause all the bitterness and misfortune of life ! What felicity , to have encouraged none but innocent and amiable pro- pensities , to be spared ...
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... turning it up . " Away , therefore , he goes , and acquaints his wife with every circumstance of their good fortune . Her raptures on this occasion may easily be imagined : she flew round his neck and em- braced him in an ecstasy of joy ...
... turning it up . " Away , therefore , he goes , and acquaints his wife with every circumstance of their good fortune . Her raptures on this occasion may easily be imagined : she flew round his neck and em- braced him in an ecstasy of joy ...
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... turns of the wire forming one head ; and these are softened by being thrown into iron pans , and placed in a fur- nace till they are red hot . As soon as they are cool again , they are distributed to children , who 28.
... turns of the wire forming one head ; and these are softened by being thrown into iron pans , and placed in a fur- nace till they are red hot . As soon as they are cool again , they are distributed to children , who 28.
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... turning a shaft that runs through its centre , and thus , by means of friction , it becomes perfectly bright . The pin being complete , nothing remains but to separate it from the bran , which is performed by a mode exactly similar to ...
... turning a shaft that runs through its centre , and thus , by means of friction , it becomes perfectly bright . The pin being complete , nothing remains but to separate it from the bran , which is performed by a mode exactly similar to ...
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... turn to paths of care , Who had through vulgar crowds to run , And leave thee bright and silent there . No more along thy shores to roam , But on the world's dim ocean tost , Dream of thee sometimes , as a home Of sunshine , he had seen ...
... turn to paths of care , Who had through vulgar crowds to run , And leave thee bright and silent there . No more along thy shores to roam , But on the world's dim ocean tost , Dream of thee sometimes , as a home Of sunshine , he had seen ...
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Popular passages
Page 65 - He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
Page 58 - The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down...
Page 99 - No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword. No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May; No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Page 159 - What time the daisy decks the green, Thy certain voice we hear; Hast thou a star to guide thy path, Or mark the rolling year? Delightful visitant ! with thee I hail the time of flowers, And hear the sound of music sweet, From birds among the bowers.
Page 135 - Hark! they whisper; Angels say, Sister Spirit, come away. What is this absorbs me quite? Steals my senses, shuts my sight, Drowns my spirits, draws my breath? Tell me, my Soul, can this be Death?
Page 286 - There is not, and there never was on this earth, a work of human policy so well deserving of examination as the Roman Catholic Church.
Page 95 - He that hath a Trade hath an Estate; and he that hath a Calling, hath an Office of Profit and Honour; but then the Trade must be worked at, and the Calling well followed, or neither the Estate nor the Office will enable us to pay our Taxes. If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, as Poor Richard says, At the working Man's House Hunger looks in, but dares not enter.
Page 58 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree...
Page 96 - The cat in gloves catches no mice, as Poor Richard says. It is true there is much to be done, and perhaps you are weak-handed; but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects; for, Constant dropping wears away stones; and, By diligence and patience the mouse ate in two the cable; and Little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says in his almanac, the year I cannot just now remember.
Page 195 - The grand transition, that there lives and works A soul in all things, and that soul is God.