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... danger : Laudis amore tumes ? Sunt certa piacula , quæ te Ter pure leto poterunt recreare libello . Is fame your paffion ? Wifdom's powerful charm , If thrice read over , fhall it's force difarm . FRANCIS . It is the fage advice of ...
... danger : Laudis amore tumes ? Sunt certa piacula , quæ te Ter pure leto poterunt recreare libello . Is fame your paffion ? Wifdom's powerful charm , If thrice read over , fhall it's force difarm . FRANCIS . It is the fage advice of ...
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... danger of making any applications to himself ; the virtues and crimes were equally be- yond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himself with heroes and with traitors , deliverers and perfecutors , as with beings of another fpecies ...
... danger of making any applications to himself ; the virtues and crimes were equally be- yond his fphere of activity ; and he amufed himself with heroes and with traitors , deliverers and perfecutors , as with beings of another fpecies ...
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... danger . My confiderations fhall , on this oc- cation , be turned on fuch as are burden- fome to themselves merely because they want fubjects for reflection , and to whom the volume of nature is thrown open without affording them ...
... danger . My confiderations fhall , on this oc- cation , be turned on fuch as are burden- fome to themselves merely because they want fubjects for reflection , and to whom the volume of nature is thrown open without affording them ...
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... danger from whatever can get pos- feffion of our thoughts ; all that can ex- cite in us either pain or pleasure has a tendency to obftruct the way that leads to happiness , and either to turn us afide , or retard our progrefs . Our ...
... danger from whatever can get pos- feffion of our thoughts ; all that can ex- cite in us either pain or pleasure has a tendency to obftruct the way that leads to happiness , and either to turn us afide , or retard our progrefs . Our ...
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... DANGER OF AN ACTUAL FAULT , engaged in the performance . For fuch is the inequality. even in cafes where they ought to be of no weight ; for the motions of fenfe are inftantaneous , it's objects strike unfought , we are accustomed to ...
... DANGER OF AN ACTUAL FAULT , engaged in the performance . For fuch is the inequality. even in cafes where they ought to be of no weight ; for the motions of fenfe are inftantaneous , it's objects strike unfought , we are accustomed to ...
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Page 317 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts. I with this messenger will go along, Nothing to do, be sure, that may dishonour Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite.
Page 317 - With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains...
Page 415 - Nothing which reason condemns can be suitable to the dignity of the human mind. To be driven by external motives from the path which our own heart approves, to give way to...
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Page 159 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows...
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Page 233 - As I was looking upon the various fate of the multitude about me, I was suddenly alarmed with an admonition from, some unknown power, " Gaze not idly upon others when thou thyself art sinking.