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... passions , and in our want of power to resist their influence , the slightest knowledge of ourselves would cause us to fear , and avoid it . But we are apt to mis - calculate our own powers of resistance , and to under - rate perils ...
... passions , and in our want of power to resist their influence , the slightest knowledge of ourselves would cause us to fear , and avoid it . But we are apt to mis - calculate our own powers of resistance , and to under - rate perils ...
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... as a spectator ; the terrible effects of the sordid passion for play , exhibited in the countenances , language , and gestures of its votaries , filled him , at first , with disgust ; yet the novelty of the scene amused 12 LETTER I.
... as a spectator ; the terrible effects of the sordid passion for play , exhibited in the countenances , language , and gestures of its votaries , filled him , at first , with disgust ; yet the novelty of the scene amused 12 LETTER I.
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... passion for dissipation , sporting , or gambling , who would have been in no danger from such pue- rile pursuits , had he learned to seek diversion for his leisure in culling the flowers of science , and to draw his amusements from ...
... passion for dissipation , sporting , or gambling , who would have been in no danger from such pue- rile pursuits , had he learned to seek diversion for his leisure in culling the flowers of science , and to draw his amusements from ...
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... passions free , Forsake their dross , and fly to THEE . ANONYMOUS . ASTRONOMY may justly be considered the most noble of the sciences . There is no other that calls for so intense an application of the reasoning fa- culties of man , or ...
... passions free , Forsake their dross , and fly to THEE . ANONYMOUS . ASTRONOMY may justly be considered the most noble of the sciences . There is no other that calls for so intense an application of the reasoning fa- culties of man , or ...
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... passion , those whose ears and hearts nature has closed entirely against the delightful impressions of harmony . But it must be remembered that every pleasure has its alloy . A very painful de- gree of sensibility frequently attends a ...
... passion , those whose ears and hearts nature has closed entirely against the delightful impressions of harmony . But it must be remembered that every pleasure has its alloy . A very painful de- gree of sensibility frequently attends a ...
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Page 13 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 26 - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same...
Page 201 - God, in the nature of each being, founds Its proper bliss, and sets its proper bounds: But as he framed a whole, the whole to bless, On mutual wants built mutual happiness: So from the first eternal Order ran, And creature link'd to creature, man to man.
Page 167 - COME, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come ; And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud, "While music wakes around, veil'd in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.
Page 127 - Open, ye everlasting gates !' they sung; ' Open, ye Heavens, your living doors ; let in The great Creator from his work returned Magnificent, his six days...
Page 170 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Page 88 - Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives; She builds our quiet as she forms our lives; Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even, And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Page 147 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. There is society where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not man the less, but nature more...
Page 218 - ... and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 20 - ... scribendi recte sapere est et principium et fons: rem tibi Socraticae poterunt ostendere chartae, 310 verbaque provisam rem non invita sequentur. qui didicit patriae quid debeat et quid amicis, quo sit amore parens, quo frater amandus et hospes, quod sit conscripti, quod iudicis officium, quae partes in bellum missi ducis, ille profecto 315 reddere personae scit convenientia cuique.