Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Band 6Thomas Tegg and others, 1824 |
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... wish to obtain within their circle of action ; and fame , which no man , however high or mean , however wise or igno- rant , was yet able to despise . Now prudence and foresight exert their influence : No hour is devoted wholly to any ...
... wish to obtain within their circle of action ; and fame , which no man , however high or mean , however wise or igno- rant , was yet able to despise . Now prudence and foresight exert their influence : No hour is devoted wholly to any ...
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... wish is always pushed off to its former distance . At length fame is observed to be uncertain , and power to be dangerous ; the man whose vigour and alacrity begin to forsake him , by degrees contracts his designs , remits his former ...
... wish is always pushed off to its former distance . At length fame is observed to be uncertain , and power to be dangerous ; the man whose vigour and alacrity begin to forsake him , by degrees contracts his designs , remits his former ...
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... attest my innocence , for who will believe what he wishes to be false ? In the heat of disappointment they forced their inmate by repeated insults to depart from the the house , and I was soon , by the No 153 . 77 THE RAMBLER .
... attest my innocence , for who will believe what he wishes to be false ? In the heat of disappointment they forced their inmate by repeated insults to depart from the the house , and I was soon , by the No 153 . 77 THE RAMBLER .
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... wishes to be counted among the benefactors of pos- terity , must add by his own toil to the acquisitions of his ancestors , and secure his memory from neglect by some valuable improvement . This can only be effected by looking out upon ...
... wishes to be counted among the benefactors of pos- terity , must add by his own toil to the acquisitions of his ancestors , and secure his memory from neglect by some valuable improvement . This can only be effected by looking out upon ...
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... wish is so near the enjoyment , that compliance often precedes consideration , and , before the powers of reason can be summoned , the time for employing them is past . Indolence is therefore one of the vices from which those whom it ...
... wish is so near the enjoyment , that compliance often precedes consideration , and , before the powers of reason can be summoned , the time for employing them is past . Indolence is therefore one of the vices from which those whom it ...
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