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... supply of breath for what he is to utter It is a great mistake to imagine , that the breath must 12 INTRODUCTION . Rank and riches afford no ground for envy Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty The slavery of vice.
... supply of breath for what he is to utter It is a great mistake to imagine , that the breath must 12 INTRODUCTION . Rank and riches afford no ground for envy Patience under provocations our interest as well as duty The slavery of vice.
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... interests . Forsake him not in danger . thought of acquiring any advantage by his prejudice . Man , always prosperous , would be giddy and insolent ; always afflicted , would be sullen or despondent . Hopes and fears , joy and sorrow ...
... interests . Forsake him not in danger . thought of acquiring any advantage by his prejudice . Man , always prosperous , would be giddy and insolent ; always afflicted , would be sullen or despondent . Hopes and fears , joy and sorrow ...
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... interest , or honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack , seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride , has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The ...
... interest , or honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack , seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride , has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The ...
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... interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and provides for the future . 9 He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked down for useful purposes , and their memory re- mains . Whereas those hours ...
... interests of the present world . He looks back on the past , and provides for the future . 9 He catches and arrests the hours as they fly . They are marked down for useful purposes , and their memory re- mains . Whereas those hours ...
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... the expense of its rival . 4 No mortifications which virtue exacts , are more severe than those , which ambition imposes upon the love of case , a . Self- pride upon interest , and covetousness upon 36 Part 1 The English Reader .
... the expense of its rival . 4 No mortifications which virtue exacts , are more severe than those , which ambition imposes upon the love of case , a . Self- pride upon interest , and covetousness upon 36 Part 1 The English Reader .
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Page 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.