 But to the young it is a very different thing, particularly perhaps at twenty years of age. We are just come into the possession of all our faculties, and begin fully to be aware of our own independence. Every thing is new to us ; and the larger half...  Cloudesley, by the author of 'Caleb Williams'. - Page 262by William Godwin - 1830Full view - About this book
 | 1830 - 622 pages
...to the young it is a very different thing, particularly perhaps at twenty years of age. We are jnst come into the possession of all our faculties, and...spreads before us all its allurements ; knowledge unrolls its ample page. We have every thing to learn, and every thing to enjoy. Ambition proffers its... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pages
...dream. Julian was young, and had seen little of the diversified scenes of human life. Existence isa thing that is regarded in a very different light by...Pleasure spreads before us all its allurements; knowledge unrolls its ample page. We have every thing to learn, and every thing to enjoy. Ambition proffers its... | |
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...the society of the companions he had left in the Apennines. He did not desire any new connexions ; he would have shrunk from the encounter of new faces....spreads before us all its allurements ; knowledge unrolls its ample page. We have every thing to learn, and every thing to enjoy. Ambition proffers its... | |
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