The Hive of Ancient and Modern Literature: A Collection of Essays, Narratives, Allegories, and Instructive CompositionsS. Hodgson, 1806 - 340 pages |
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... pleasure , and an indifcriminate intercourse with mankind , often fuperinduce a great degree of infen- fibility ; and the battered veteran at laft confiders the admonitions of the moralift as the vain babbling of a fophift , and the ...
... pleasure , and an indifcriminate intercourse with mankind , often fuperinduce a great degree of infen- fibility ; and the battered veteran at laft confiders the admonitions of the moralift as the vain babbling of a fophift , and the ...
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... pleasure and improvement from company , it ought to be felect , and to confift of perfons of character , refpectable both for their morals and their understandings . Mixed and undiftinguished society tends only to diffipate our ideas ...
... pleasure and improvement from company , it ought to be felect , and to confift of perfons of character , refpectable both for their morals and their understandings . Mixed and undiftinguished society tends only to diffipate our ideas ...
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... pleasure in temporary foli- tude . Every one muft , indeed , fometimes be alone . Let him not repine when he is alone , but learn to fet a value on the golden moments . It is then that he is enabled to ftudy himself and the world around ...
... pleasure in temporary foli- tude . Every one muft , indeed , fometimes be alone . Let him not repine when he is alone , but learn to fet a value on the golden moments . It is then that he is enabled to ftudy himself and the world around ...
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... pleasurable life . Vi- ciffitude is effential to every ftate of durable enjoyment . He who has spent a little part of ... pleasure pure , and more un- mixed with mifery . It would give them knowledge , fo that they would fee how far they ...
... pleasurable life . Vi- ciffitude is effential to every ftate of durable enjoyment . He who has spent a little part of ... pleasure pure , and more un- mixed with mifery . It would give them knowledge , fo that they would fee how far they ...
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... pleasure with bufinefs , and to gain the rewards of diligence , without fuffering its fatigues . He , there- fore , ftill continued to walk for a time , without the least remiffion of his ardour , except that he was fome- times tempted ...
... pleasure with bufinefs , and to gain the rewards of diligence , without fuffering its fatigues . He , there- fore , ftill continued to walk for a time , without the least remiffion of his ardour , except that he was fome- times tempted ...
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