The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, Selected from the Best Writers ...Stereotyped, printed and published by H. and E. Phinney, 1829 - 252 |
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... happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness ...
... happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness ...
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... happiness of every man depends more upon the state of his own mind , than upon any one external circumstance : nay , more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ourselves secure from the ...
... happiness of every man depends more upon the state of his own mind , than upon any one external circumstance : nay , more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ourselves secure from the ...
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... happiness reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and " the night cometh , when no man can work . " To sensual persons , hardly any thing is what it appears to be ; and what flatters most , is always farthest from ...
... happiness reflect , that while he forms his purpose , the day rolls on , and " the night cometh , when no man can work . " To sensual persons , hardly any thing is what it appears to be ; and what flatters most , is always farthest from ...
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... happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends gene- rally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill cne , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable ...
... happiness ; intemperance , by enervating them , ends gene- rally in misery . Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill cne , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable ...
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... happiness is a perpetual source of consolation to good men . Under trouble , it soothes their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their virtue ; and , in their dying moments , enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ? O ...
... happiness is a perpetual source of consolation to good men . Under trouble , it soothes their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their virtue ; and , in their dying moments , enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ? O ...
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Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing bliss breast Caius Verres cheerful dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes father favour fear feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground hand happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n HERACLITUS honour hope human indulge Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery mount Etna nature nature's never night noble Numidia o'er pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect person pleasures possession pow'r praise pride prince proper Pythias racter religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily smiles solitude sorrow soul sound spect spirit spring sweet tears temper tempest thee things thou art thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise youth