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... pleasure at a distance , which we may , perhaps , never obtain , or which , when obtained , may change its nature , and be no longer pleasure . Maxims and Obserations , & c . 8. Truth , Error . - Truth we apprehend to be the conformity ...
... pleasure at a distance , which we may , perhaps , never obtain , or which , when obtained , may change its nature , and be no longer pleasure . Maxims and Obserations , & c . 8. Truth , Error . - Truth we apprehend to be the conformity ...
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... pleasure dares not approach . Happy ! thrice happy ! are those who are blest with an independent competence , and can confine their wants within the bounds of that competence , be it what it may . To such alone the bread of life is ...
... pleasure dares not approach . Happy ! thrice happy ! are those who are blest with an independent competence , and can confine their wants within the bounds of that competence , be it what it may . To such alone the bread of life is ...
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14 Anecdotes of Henry IV . of France . - Henry read with pleasure every thing that was published concerning his operations ; for under his reign , every one enjoyed free liberty of speaking , writing , and printing ; and Truth , which ...
14 Anecdotes of Henry IV . of France . - Henry read with pleasure every thing that was published concerning his operations ; for under his reign , every one enjoyed free liberty of speaking , writing , and printing ; and Truth , which ...
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... pleasure ; his endowments are too excellent , his capacities too large for so mean and narrow purposes . How pitiful a creature were man , if this were all he were made for , how sorry a faculty were reason , if it served not to better ...
... pleasure ; his endowments are too excellent , his capacities too large for so mean and narrow purposes . How pitiful a creature were man , if this were all he were made for , how sorry a faculty were reason , if it served not to better ...
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... pleasures , by which the powers of the body are strongly exerted , but those of the mind remain unemployed . It consists in a violent exertion of desire in the pursuit , and the indulgence of a cruel passion in the death of the game ...
... pleasures , by which the powers of the body are strongly exerted , but those of the mind remain unemployed . It consists in a violent exertion of desire in the pursuit , and the indulgence of a cruel passion in the death of the game ...
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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.