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... mean the demon Fear That trembles at impossible events , Lest aged Atlas should resign his load , And Heaven's eternal battlements rush down . Is there an evil worse than fear itself ? And what avails it , that indulgent Heav'n From ...
... mean the demon Fear That trembles at impossible events , Lest aged Atlas should resign his load , And Heaven's eternal battlements rush down . Is there an evil worse than fear itself ? And what avails it , that indulgent Heav'n From ...
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... means they use ( how unjust , how base soever they be ) toward the compassing of their designs : hence , they ... mean and narrow purposes . How pitiful a creature were man , if this were all he were made for , how sorry a faculty ...
... means they use ( how unjust , how base soever they be ) toward the compassing of their designs : hence , they ... mean and narrow purposes . How pitiful a creature were man , if this were all he were made for , how sorry a faculty ...
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... means to escape them ; but blinded by caprice , prejudice , and pride , we neglect the proffered aid , and it is only by the tears we shed , in consequence of our own errors , that we learn to detest them . - Maxims and Observations ...
... means to escape them ; but blinded by caprice , prejudice , and pride , we neglect the proffered aid , and it is only by the tears we shed , in consequence of our own errors , that we learn to detest them . - Maxims and Observations ...
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... means of it we become less dependent for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites , the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised , and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual to the material part of our nature ...
... means of it we become less dependent for satisfaction upon the sensitive appetites , the gross pleasures of sense are more easily despised , and we are made to feel the superiority of the spiritual to the material part of our nature ...
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... means of guarding against it . The reason is not that the one class believe the danger to be less . They are likely in many in- stances to perceive it more clearly . But having acquired a habit of instantly turning their thoughts to the ...
... means of guarding against it . The reason is not that the one class believe the danger to be less . They are likely in many in- stances to perceive it more clearly . But having acquired a habit of instantly turning their thoughts to the ...
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Page 33 - Some drill and bore The solid earth, and from the strata there Extract a register, by which we learn That He who made it and revealed its date To Moses, was mistaken in its age.
Page 244 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?
Page 105 - And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Page 182 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 287 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
Page 196 - He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute.
Page 242 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
Page 232 - Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together.
Page 143 - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
Page 226 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.