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... means with ends , may discover the weakness of human schemes ; detect the fallacies by which mortals are deluded ; fhew the infufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real happiness ; and please himself , and his auditors , with ...
... means with ends , may discover the weakness of human schemes ; detect the fallacies by which mortals are deluded ; fhew the infufficiency of wealth , honours , and power , to real happiness ; and please himself , and his auditors , with ...
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... means of deli- verance from penury , to give a loose to his prefent defires , and leave the reckoning to fortune or to virtue . To thefe cautions , which , I fuppofe , are , at least among the graver part of mankind , undifputed , I ...
... means of deli- verance from penury , to give a loose to his prefent defires , and leave the reckoning to fortune or to virtue . To thefe cautions , which , I fuppofe , are , at least among the graver part of mankind , undifputed , I ...
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... mean fear of contempt and ridicule ; an emulation for the prize of folly , or the dread of the laugh of fools . I am , SIR , Your humble Servant , SOPHRON . NUMB . 58. SATURDAY , October 6 , 1750 . -Improbe Crefcunt divitia , tamen ...
... mean fear of contempt and ridicule ; an emulation for the prize of folly , or the dread of the laugh of fools . I am , SIR , Your humble Servant , SOPHRON . NUMB . 58. SATURDAY , October 6 , 1750 . -Improbe Crefcunt divitia , tamen ...
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... mean and unenvied ftate . It is true , indeed , that many have neglected op- portunities of raifing themselves to honours and to wealth , and rejected the kindeft offers of for- tune : But , however their moderation may be boafted by ...
... mean and unenvied ftate . It is true , indeed , that many have neglected op- portunities of raifing themselves to honours and to wealth , and rejected the kindeft offers of for- tune : But , however their moderation may be boafted by ...
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... mean , and placed in fituations , from which they naturally look up with envy to the eminences before them , thofe writers cannot be thought ill employed that have administered remedies to difcontent almost uni- verfal , by showing ...
... mean , and placed in fituations , from which they naturally look up with envy to the eminences before them , thofe writers cannot be thought ill employed that have administered remedies to difcontent almost uni- verfal , by showing ...
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Page 197 - God made thee of choice his own, and of his own To serve him; thy reward was of his grace; Thy punishment then justly is at his will. Be...
Page 208 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 63 - He did not, however, forget whither he was travelling, but found a narrow way bordered with flowers...
Page 36 - There are many invisible circumstances which, whether we read as inquirers after natural or moral knowledge, whether we intend to enlarge our science, or increase our virtue, are more important than publick occurrences.
Page 184 - Ordain'd by thee; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But thou hast promis'd from us two a race To fill the earth, who shall with us extol Thy goodness infinite, both when we wake, And when we seek, as now, thy gift of sleep.
Page 89 - Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes, as he declines into imbecility, and feels pains and sorrows incessantly crowding upon him, falls into a gulf of bottomless misery, in which every reflection must plunge him deeper, and where he finds only new gradations of anguish and precipices of horror.
Page 65 - ... that led him on from trifle to trifle. While he was thus reflecting, the air grew blacker, and a clap of thunder broke his meditation.
Page 236 - Thine own begotten, breaking violent way Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew Transformed: but he my inbred enemy Forth issued, brandishing his fatal dart Made to destroy: I fled and cried out "Death;" Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sighed From all her caves, and back resounded "Death.
Page 21 - Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. He that is extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption...
Page 64 - ... in compliance with the varieties of the ground, and to end at last in the common road.