The English Reader; Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best Writers ... with a Few Preliminary Observations on the Principles of Good ReadingHarder, 1836 - 250 стор. |
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... happiness is of a retired nature ; an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness to ...
... happiness is of a retired nature ; an enemy to pomp and noise . In order to acquire a capacity for happiness , it must be our first study to rectify inward disorders . Whatever purifies , fortifies also the heart . From our eagerness to ...
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... happiness of every man , depends more upon the state of his own mind , than upon any one external circumstance : nay , more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ourselves secure from ...
... happiness of every man , depends more upon the state of his own mind , than upon any one external circumstance : nay , more than upon all external things put together . In no station , in no period , let us think ourselves secure from ...
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... happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence , by such tokens as ex- cite neither shame nor sorrow . It ought ...
... happiness . There is certainly no greater felicity , than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed ; to trace our own progress in existence , by such tokens as ex- cite neither shame nor sorrow . It ought ...
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... happiness : intemperance by enervating them , ends gener- ally in misery . Title and ancestry , render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable ...
... happiness : intemperance by enervating them , ends gener- ally in misery . Title and ancestry , render a good man more illustrious ; but an ill one , more contemptible . Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable ...
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... happiness , is a perpetual source of consolation to good men . Under trouble , it soothes their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their virtue , and , in their dying moments , enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ...
... happiness , is a perpetual source of consolation to good men . Under trouble , it soothes their minds ; amidst temptation , it supports their virtue , and , in their dying moments , enables them to say , " O death ! where is thy sting ...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ... Lindley Murray Перегляд фрагмента - 1851 |
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