Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1801 - English poetry |
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Page 167
... wealth , honour , and fenfual pleasure . He , afterwards , confiders a life of reafon and virtue , as the proper life of a man , and pronounces him the true lover of him- felf , who makes fuch a life his care . " He goes on , " When all ...
... wealth , honour , and fenfual pleasure . He , afterwards , confiders a life of reafon and virtue , as the proper life of a man , and pronounces him the true lover of him- felf , who makes fuch a life his care . " He goes on , " When all ...
Page 195
... wealth , will exact it ; and all may justly exact it , in a proper degree . But it may here perhaps be inquired ... wealth , honour , and confe- quence , must follow ; a variety of diftinc- tions and obligations ; in fhort , different ...
... wealth , will exact it ; and all may justly exact it , in a proper degree . But it may here perhaps be inquired ... wealth , honour , and confe- quence , must follow ; a variety of diftinc- tions and obligations ; in fhort , different ...
Page 363
... wealth with pleasure , because it affordeth him the means to do good . He fecketh out objects of compaffion : he enquireth into their wants ; he relieveth with judgment , and without oftentation . He affilteth and rewardeth merit : he ...
... wealth with pleasure , because it affordeth him the means to do good . He fecketh out objects of compaffion : he enquireth into their wants ; he relieveth with judgment , and without oftentation . He affilteth and rewardeth merit : he ...
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Tevion of Mr Allegory Spectator | 1 |
The Canal and the Brook | 11 |
On Goodbreeding | 17 |
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