Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose, Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons : Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Poetry, Volume 1T. Longman, B. Law&Son, J. Dodsley, J. Johnson, C. Dilly, G.G.&J. Robinson, T. Cadell, W. Richardson, R. Baldwin, W. Goldsmith, F.&C. Rivington, R. Faulder, S. Hayes, Ogilvy&Speare, Vernor&Hood, W. Lowndes, C. Wynne, W. Bent, J. Scatcherd, G.&T. Wilkie, J. Walker, J. Evans, C.&G. Kearsley, and H. Murray, 1794 - 1119 pages |
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Page xvii
... true Pleasure 37 Irregular Pleasures , bad Effects of 51 52 52 .52 53 53 54 54 . neceffary in Bufinefs , Time , & c . - SI Idlenefs avoided by obferving effential to Self - enjoyment , & c . 58 Suppreffion of criminal Thoughts 59 ...
... true Pleasure 37 Irregular Pleasures , bad Effects of 51 52 52 .52 53 53 54 54 . neceffary in Bufinefs , Time , & c . - SI Idlenefs avoided by obferving effential to Self - enjoyment , & c . 58 Suppreffion of criminal Thoughts 59 ...
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... true Ufe 66 Human Nature , its Dignity 67 Operations of confidered 68 Oeconomy , Want of it no Genius exemplified in the Story of an Boling . 876 Hume . 877 Orrery . 877 Mark of Adventurer . 878 828 829 69 Operas ridiculed 70 Patience ...
... true Ufe 66 Human Nature , its Dignity 67 Operations of confidered 68 Oeconomy , Want of it no Genius exemplified in the Story of an Boling . 876 Hume . 877 Orrery . 877 Mark of Adventurer . 878 828 829 69 Operas ridiculed 70 Patience ...
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... true wifdom . Particularly as to the affairs of this world , integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dif- fimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and eafier , much the fafer and more fecure way of ...
... true wifdom . Particularly as to the affairs of this world , integrity hath many advantages over all the fine and artificial ways of dif- fimulation and deceit ; it is much the plainer and eafier , much the fafer and more fecure way of ...
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... true and impartial knowledge of himself . The ufual means prefcribed for this pur- pofe , are to examine ourselves by the rules which are laid down for our direction in facred writ , and to compare our lives with the life of that perfon ...
... true and impartial knowledge of himself . The ufual means prefcribed for this pur- pofe , are to examine ourselves by the rules which are laid down for our direction in facred writ , and to compare our lives with the life of that perfon ...
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... true Pleafure . Confider Confult your whole nature . yourselves not only as fenfitive , but as ra- tional beings ; not only as rational , but focial ; not only as focial , but immortal . Whatever violates your nature in any of these ...
... true Pleafure . Confider Confult your whole nature . yourselves not only as fenfitive , but as ra- tional beings ; not only as rational , but focial ; not only as focial , but immortal . Whatever violates your nature in any of these ...
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affiftance againſt alfo bad company becauſe beft beſt bleffings cafe caufe chearful chearfulneſs Chrift Chriftian confequence confider confideration converfation courfe defign defire difcover difpofed difpofition divine duty endeavour faid fame fecurity feek feem felves fenfe fenfible fent fentiments ferve feveral fhall fhew fhort fhould fince firft firſt fociety fome foon foul fpeak fpirit ftand ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fupport fure give greateſt happineſs happy hath heart himſelf honour human inftances intereft itſelf juft laft leaft lefs ligion mankind manner ment mifery mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf nature neceffary nefs never obferved occafion ourſelves paffed paffions perfons philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poffefs poffible prefent preferve purpoſe racter raiſe reafon refpect reft religion ſhall ſpeak ſtate temper thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe thou thought tion truth underſtanding univerfal uſe virtue whofe wifdom youth