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acquaintance amusements Anthea appearance AUGUST 28 beauty calamity censure Cleobulus common consider contempt danger delight desire discover easily effects ELPHINSTON eminent endeavour envy Epictetus equally error evils excellence eyes favour fear feli folly force fortune frequently friends gain genius give happen happiness heart hinder honour hope hopes and fears hour human imagination incited indulge inquiries Jovianus Pontanus Jupiter kind knowledge labour Lacedemon lady learning lence less lest lives mankind marriage means Melanthia ment mind miscarriages misery nature neglect ness never numbers objects observed once opinion ourselves OVID pain passed passions pastoral Penthesilea perhaps Periander perpetual pleased pleasure praise precepts produce Prudentius racter RAMBLER reason regard reproach reputation rest retirement SATURDAY seldom sometimes soon sophism suffer tence thing thou thought tion told TUESDAY uncon vanity Virgil virtue wish write young
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Page 371 - Pity is to many of the unhappy a source of comfort in hopeless distresses, as it contributes to recommend them to themselves, by proving that they have not lost the regard of others ; and Heaven seems to indicate the duty even of barren compassion, by inclining us to weep for evils which we cannot remedy.
Page 406 - But temptation succeeds temptation, and one compliance prepares us for another ; we in time lose the happiness of innocence, and solace our disquiet with sensual gratifications. By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention, and quit the only adequate object of rational desire.
Page 2 - Horace, may indeed be applied to the direction of candidates for inferior fame ; it may be proper for all to remember, that they ought not to raise expectation, which it is not in their power to satisfy, and that it is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than flame sinking into smoke.
Page 23 - ... it, to initiate youth by mock encounters in the art of necessary defence, and to increase prudence without impairing virtue.
Page 261 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Page 356 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and po'verty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Page 407 - ... us, and disease and anxiety obstruct our way. We then look back upon our lives with horror, with sorrow, with repentance; and wish, N° 66. THE RAM It Mitt. 40/ but too often vainly wish, that we had not forsaken the ways of virtue. Happy are they, my son, who shall learn from thy example not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one...
Page 404 - ... and despised the petty curiosity that led him on from trifle to trifle. While he was thus reflecting, the air grew blacker, and a clap of thunder broke his meditation.
Page 26 - ... bring upon it, may, by conquering some calamities, and enduring others, teach us what we may hope, and what we can perform.
Page 406 - let the errors and follies, the dangers and escape of this day, sink deep into thy heart. Remember, my son, that human life is the journey of a day. We rise in the morning of youth, full of vigour and full of expectation; we set forward with spirit and hope, with gaiety and with diligence, and travel on a while in the straight road of piety towards the mansions of rest.