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... marriage caused by irregular motives of choice - -116 19 The danger of ranging from one study to another. The importance of the early choice of a prosession - 123 ?o The folly and inconvenience of affectation - 131 3 : The anxieties of ...
... marriage caused by irregular motives of choice - -116 19 The danger of ranging from one study to another. The importance of the early choice of a prosession - 123 ?o The folly and inconvenience of affectation - 131 3 : The anxieties of ...
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... marriage - 289 46 The mischiess of rural faction - - 295 4,7 The proper means of regulating sorrow - - 301 48 The miseries of an infirm constitution - - 307 49 A disquisition upon the value. of fame - - 313 50 A virtuous old age always ...
... marriage - 289 46 The mischiess of rural faction - - 295 4,7 The proper means of regulating sorrow - - 301 48 The miseries of an infirm constitution - - 307 49 A disquisition upon the value. of fame - - 313 50 A virtuous old age always ...
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... marry, who has not the patience of Grizzel. Nay, is even Griz- zel had been married to a gamester, her temper would never have held out. A wretch that lofes his good-humour and humanity along with' his money, and will not allow enough ...
... marry, who has not the patience of Grizzel. Nay, is even Griz- zel had been married to a gamester, her temper would never have held out. A wretch that lofes his good-humour and humanity along with' his money, and will not allow enough ...
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... married. As for play, I do think I may, indeed, indulge in that, now I am my own mistress. Papa made me drudge at whist till I was tired of it ; and, far from wanting a head, Mr. Hoyle, when he had not given me above forty lesions, said ...
... married. As for play, I do think I may, indeed, indulge in that, now I am my own mistress. Papa made me drudge at whist till I was tired of it ; and, far from wanting a head, Mr. Hoyle, when he had not given me above forty lesions, said ...
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... marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of providence, is yet very often the cause of misery; and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom ...
... marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of providence, is yet very often the cause of misery; and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom ...
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Page 388 - There are many who think it an Act of Piety to hide the Faults or Failings of their Friends, even when they can no longer suffer by their Detection; we therefore see whole Ranks of Characters adorned with uniform Panegyrick, and not to be known from one another, but by extrinsick and casual Circumstances. "Let me remember...
Page 416 - ... is consulted ; he lamented the unmanly impatience that prompted him to seek shelter in the grove, and despised the petty curiosity that led him on from trifle to trifle.
Page 30 - Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems: for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Page 271 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have...
Page 283 - All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals.
Page 384 - I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful.
Page 25 - The task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never be attained by solitary diligence, but must arise from general converse, and accurate observation of the living world.
Page 386 - ... the business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents, which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestick privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and by virtue.
Page 287 - Retire with me, O rash unthinking mortal, from the vain allurements of a deceitful world, and learn that pleasure was not designed the -portion of human life. Man was born to mourn and to be wretched; this is the condition of all below the stars, and whoever endeavours to oppose it acts in contradiction to the will of Heaven.
Page 383 - ALL joy or sorrow for the happiness or calamities of others is produced by an act of the imagination, that realises the event however fictitious, or approximates it however remote, by placing us, for a time, in 'the condition of him whose fortune we contemplate; so that we feel, while the deception lasts, whatever motions would be excited by the same good or evil happening to ourselves.