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... learned strife , To the calm blessings of a country life : And , with these separate demands , dismiss Each suppliant to enjoy the promis'd bliss : Don't you believe they'd run ? Not one will move , Tho ' proffer'd to be happy from ...
... learned strife , To the calm blessings of a country life : And , with these separate demands , dismiss Each suppliant to enjoy the promis'd bliss : Don't you believe they'd run ? Not one will move , Tho ' proffer'd to be happy from ...
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... learned from it , never to repine at my own misfortunes , or to envy the happiness of another , since it is impossible for any man to form a right judgment of his neighbour's sufferings ; for which reason also I have determined never to ...
... learned from it , never to repine at my own misfortunes , or to envy the happiness of another , since it is impossible for any man to form a right judgment of his neighbour's sufferings ; for which reason also I have determined never to ...
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... learned several secrets which may be of use to those unhappy gentlemen , who are commonly distinguished by the name of widow - hun- ters , and who do not know that this tribe of women are , generally speaking , as much upon the catch as ...
... learned several secrets which may be of use to those unhappy gentlemen , who are commonly distinguished by the name of widow - hun- ters , and who do not know that this tribe of women are , generally speaking , as much upon the catch as ...
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... learned reader , that in the Ides of March Brutus destroyed Cæsar , and that Cicero quashed the conspiracy of Catiline in the Calends of December . How shocking soever this great man's talking of him- self might have been to his ...
... learned reader , that in the Ides of March Brutus destroyed Cæsar , and that Cicero quashed the conspiracy of Catiline in the Calends of December . How shocking soever this great man's talking of him- self might have been to his ...
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... learned world to endeavour at set- tling what it was that might be said to compose per- sonal identity . Mr. Locke , after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being , that has reason and ...
... learned world to endeavour at set- tling what it was that might be said to compose per- sonal identity . Mr. Locke , after having premised that the word person properly signifies a thinking intelligent being , that has reason and ...
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Page 285 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 267 - I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Page 18 - IT is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order to be equally distributed among the whole species, those who now think themselves the most unhappy, would prefer the share they are already possessed of before that which would fall to them by such a division.
Page 20 - One little packet I could not but take notice of, which was a complication of all the diseases incident to human nature, and was in the hand of a great many fine people ; this was called the spleen. But what most of all surprised me, was a remark I made, that there was not a single vice or folly thrown into the whole heap...
Page 20 - The immoderate breadth of the features made me very much out of humour with my own countenance, upon which I threw it from me like a mask. It happened very luckily that one who stood by me had just before thrown down his visage, which it seems was too long for him. It was indeed extended to a most shameful length ; I believe the very chin was, modestly speaking, as long as my whole face.
Page 23 - My friend with a long visage had no sooner taken upon him my short face, but he made such a grotesque figure in it, that as I looked upon him I could not forbear laughing at myself, insomuch that I put my own face out of countenance. The poor gentleman was so sensible of the ridicule, that I found he was ashamed of what he had done ; on the other side, I found that I myself had no great reason to triumph, for as I went to touch my forehead, I missed the place, and clapped my finger upon my upper...
Page 47 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 43 - ... till the whole firmament was in a glow. The blueness of the ether was exceedingly heightened and enlivened by the season of the year, and by the rays of all those luminaries that passed through it. The galaxy appeared in its most beautiful white. To complete the scene, the full moon rose at length in that clouded majesty...
Page 44 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other; as it is possible there may be such a sense in ourselves hereafter, or in creatures which are at present more exalted than ourselves.
Page 44 - In the same manner when I considered that infinite host of stars, or, to speak more philosophically, of suns which were then shining upon me, with those innumerable sets of planets or worlds which were moving round their respective suns ; when I still enlarged the idea, and supposed another heaven of suns and worlds rising still above this which we discovered, and these still enlightened by a superior firmament of luminaries, which are planted at so great a distance, that they may appear to the inhabitants...