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... happiness of those by whom they imagine their own happiness endangered . Thus we find old age upon which suspicion has been strongly impressed by long intercourse with the world , inflexible and severe , not easily softened by ...
... happiness of those by whom they imagine their own happiness endangered . Thus we find old age upon which suspicion has been strongly impressed by long intercourse with the world , inflexible and severe , not easily softened by ...
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... happiness or virtue ; nor is it easy to forbear some sallies of merriment or expres- sions of pity , when we see a man wrinkled with at- tention , and emaciated with solicitude , in the inves- tigation of questions , of which , without ...
... happiness or virtue ; nor is it easy to forbear some sallies of merriment or expres- sions of pity , when we see a man wrinkled with at- tention , and emaciated with solicitude , in the inves- tigation of questions , of which , without ...
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... happiness is to be gained , or what inconvenience to be avoided , by this stated recession ? Of the birds of passage , some follow the summer , and some the winter , because they live upon sustenance which only summer or winter can ...
... happiness is to be gained , or what inconvenience to be avoided , by this stated recession ? Of the birds of passage , some follow the summer , and some the winter , because they live upon sustenance which only summer or winter can ...
Contents
Peevishness equally wretched and offensivethe Character of Tetrica | 74 |
The World never known but by a Change of Fortune the History of Melissa | 75 |
The Arts by which bad Men are reconciled to them selves | 76 |
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