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... affection . IV . If greatness flatters our vanity it multiplies our dangers . No errors are so trivial that they do not de- serve to be minded . Candour is a quality which all ad- mire though few practise it . He who gives his child ...
... affection . IV . If greatness flatters our vanity it multiplies our dangers . No errors are so trivial that they do not de- serve to be minded . Candour is a quality which all ad- mire though few practise it . He who gives his child ...
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... affection is allowed to penetrate present an object unamiable in every season of life but particularly odious in youth . To give an early preference to honour above gain when they stand in competition to despise every advantage which ...
... affection is allowed to penetrate present an object unamiable in every season of life but particularly odious in youth . To give an early preference to honour above gain when they stand in competition to despise every advantage which ...
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... affections the heart . 5. Virtue convey satisfaction to must be habitually active . 6. An idle man cannot engage himself in any employment or profession , 7. Arabia is destitute of navigable rivers The torrents are imbibed by the ...
... affections the heart . 5. Virtue convey satisfaction to must be habitually active . 6. An idle man cannot engage himself in any employment or profession , 7. Arabia is destitute of navigable rivers The torrents are imbibed by the ...
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... affectionate , and useful . For the benefit of man , he traverses the sandy deserts of Arabia , where drink and pasture are seldom to be found , and will continue several days without sustenance , yet still patient of labour . The camel ...
... affectionate , and useful . For the benefit of man , he traverses the sandy deserts of Arabia , where drink and pasture are seldom to be found , and will continue several days without sustenance , yet still patient of labour . The camel ...
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... affection and endearment . Some persons have about them many such objects . Those persons generally possess good spirits . 12. There is a gentle wisdom . There is an artificial courtesy . The former is from above . The latter is learned ...
... affection and endearment . Some persons have about them many such objects . Those persons generally possess good spirits . 12. There is a gentle wisdom . There is an artificial courtesy . The former is from above . The latter is learned ...
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Página 122 - And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept : and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son...
Página 122 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.
Página 19 - All our conduct towards men should be influenced by this important precept " Do unto others as you would that others should do unto you.
Página 40 - Are such abilities made for no purpose ? A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.
Página 56 - Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose, Now one in verse makes many more in prose.
Página 125 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Página 55 - But yonder comes the powerful king of day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.
Página 122 - I cannot but imagine the virtuous heroes, legislators, and patriots, of every age and country, are bending from their elevated seats to witness this contest, as if they were incapable, till it be brought to a favourable issue, of enjoying their eternal repose. Enjoy that repose, illustrious immortals...
Página 117 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 71 - Their real interest to discern; That brother should not war with brother, And worry and devour each other; But sing and shine by sweet consent, Till life's poor transient night is spent, Respecting in each other's case The gifts of nature and of grace. Those Christians best deserve the name, Who studiously make peace their aim ; Peace, both the duty and the prize Of him that creeps and him that flies.