The SavageEdward J. Coale, 1813 - 312 páginas |
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... happiness is blight- ed . Foolish men ! to break the glasses through which their mothers and nurses were content to receive the rays of knowledge Foolish men ! to soar with waxen wings above the atmosphere of prejudice which sur- rounds ...
... happiness is blight- ed . Foolish men ! to break the glasses through which their mothers and nurses were content to receive the rays of knowledge Foolish men ! to soar with waxen wings above the atmosphere of prejudice which sur- rounds ...
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... happiness is in- sured by a multiplicity of enjoyments . We shall speak of their happiness hereafter ; at present we mean merely to consider the paucity of their numbers . As refinement progresses , the number of the refined must ...
... happiness is in- sured by a multiplicity of enjoyments . We shall speak of their happiness hereafter ; at present we mean merely to consider the paucity of their numbers . As refinement progresses , the number of the refined must ...
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... happiness . They complain , most dolefully , of the impertinence of their servants , and , indeed , of the difficulty of procuring any one sufficiently qualified for the situation of a menial . You frequently blush for the rudeness and ...
... happiness . They complain , most dolefully , of the impertinence of their servants , and , indeed , of the difficulty of procuring any one sufficiently qualified for the situation of a menial . You frequently blush for the rudeness and ...
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... happiness depends on the breath of mortals as contemptible as himself . THE HILL OF LIFE . ARMINE became acquainted with his own existence in the valley of Childhood . His couch was composed of roses , and canopied over by the boughs of ...
... happiness depends on the breath of mortals as contemptible as himself . THE HILL OF LIFE . ARMINE became acquainted with his own existence in the valley of Childhood . His couch was composed of roses , and canopied over by the boughs of ...
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... happiness of youth ? Is it owing to the novelty of the scenes which surround us , and to the superficial view we take of persons and of things ? Nature clothes her face in smiles ; and we inquire no farther , but resign ourselves with ...
... happiness of youth ? Is it owing to the novelty of the scenes which surround us , and to the superficial view we take of persons and of things ? Nature clothes her face in smiles ; and we inquire no farther , but resign ourselves with ...
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Términos y frases comunes
alkahest amusement antient Apicius appear Aristippus attention become body character Cherokee nation children of men Chotahowee christian civilized consequence contempt continued countenance CRITO damned delight desire devil dignity discover Doctor Johnson earth endeavor evil exertions existence eyes fathers favor feel filly folly Frank French revolution friendship Gabble give hand happiness hear heard heaven Hobah honor hope idea Jack Flash labor language laws long con Lycurgus malignity manner mean ment mind miserable mountains multitude Muscogulgee nation nature never object observed opinion orthoepy passions peace perceive philosophers Piomingo pleasure poet Poison polished political Polydore portunity possessed prejudices pronunciation quakers Quassia refinement render republican rich savage Schoolmaster slavery slaves smiles society soul species spirit suppose talk thing thou thought tion vice virtue virtuous vitious warrior words
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Página 289 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i
Página 10 - 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.
Página 156 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Página 95 - The world recedes; it disappears! Heaven opens on my eyes! my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting?
Página 202 - Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Página 156 - My fate cries out, And makes each petty artery in this body As hardy as the Nemean lion's nerve.
Página 95 - At supper this night he talked of good eating with uncommon satisfaction. " Some people," said he, " have a foolish way of not minding, or pretending not to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully ; for I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.
Página 93 - There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour.
Página 225 - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.