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Page 154
... perpetual dissipation . " By encouraging people to employ their whole attention on trifles , and make amusement their sole study , you will teach them how to avoid many very uneasy reflections . " All the soft feelings of humanity , the ...
... perpetual dissipation . " By encouraging people to employ their whole attention on trifles , and make amusement their sole study , you will teach them how to avoid many very uneasy reflections . " All the soft feelings of humanity , the ...
Page 210
... perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state . In youth we re- quire something of the tardiness and frigidity of age ; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and im- petuosity of youth ; in ...
... perpetual conflict with natural desires seems to be the lot of our present state . In youth we re- quire something of the tardiness and frigidity of age ; and in age we must labour to recall the fire and im- petuosity of youth ; in ...
Page 322
... perpetual temptations , that very few , even of those who are not yet abandoned , are able to preserve their innocence , or can produce any other claim to pardon than that they have devi- ated from the right less than others , and have ...
... perpetual temptations , that very few , even of those who are not yet abandoned , are able to preserve their innocence , or can produce any other claim to pardon than that they have devi- ated from the right less than others , and have ...
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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