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Gleanings Through Wales, Holland and Westphalia: With Views of Peace and War ... - Page 98
by Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - 1795
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 2

John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing;...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 2

Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...fame, or pelf, The learn'd is happy nature to explore, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The fool is happy that he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of heaven. The sot a hero, lunatic a king; See the blind...
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy, that...plenty giv'n, The poor contents him with the care of heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king ; The starving...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that...plenty giv'n, The poor contents him with the care of Heav'n. , 28 See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king; The starving...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. The learn'd 830 given ; The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,...
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The Grammatical Instructer; Containing an Exposition of All the Essential ...

Samuel B. EMMONS - English language - 1832 - 168 pages
...away. Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his' neighbor with himself. The learn' d is happy nature to explore, The fool...he knows no more; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents hjm with the care of Heav'n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple'-sing:...
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Cobb's Sequel to the Juvenile Readers: Comprising a Selection of Lessons in ...

Lyman Cobb - Readers - 1834 - 238 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one would change his neighbour with himself. The learned is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy that...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,...
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The works of Alexander Pope; with a memoir of the author, notes ..., Volume 1

Alexander Pope - 1835 - 350 pages
...Whate'er the passion, knowlege, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy nature to explore, The fool is happy that...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, 265 The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,...
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The Poetical Works of A. Pope: Including His Translation of Homer , to which ...

Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Vot one will change his neighhour with himself. The learn'd h rough thickets, and a nodding wood. I left my vessel at the point of land, And close to guard it, g given; The poor contents him with the care of Heaven. See the hlind heggar dance, the cripple sing,...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...What'er the passion, knowledge, fame or pelf, Not one would change his neighbor with himself. The learn'd is happy, nature to explore, The fool is happy that...he knows no more ; The rich is happy in the plenty given, The poor contents him with the care of heaven : See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,...
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