The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best WritersCollins and Company, 1832 - 252 pagini |
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Pagina 15
... reflection which has long since passed inte a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many ...
... reflection which has long since passed inte a proverb , and been ranked among the standing maxims of human wisdom , in all ages of the world . SECTION III . THE desire of improvement discovers a liberal mind , and is connected with many ...
Pagina 27
... reflection : In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of world- ly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the va- nity of the world , facts ...
... reflection : In the varieties of life , occasioned by the vicissitudes of world- ly fortune , we are inured to habits both of the active and the suffering virtues . How much soever we complain of the va- nity of the world , facts ...
Pagina 31
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ! how ...
... reflections naturally arise : How miserable is vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ! how ...
Pagina 35
... reflections ! 5. They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons ...
... reflections ! 5. They tell thee that thou art wise ; but what does wisdom avail with poverty ? None will flatter the poor ; and the wise have very little power of flattering themselves . That man is surely the most wretched of the sons ...
Pagina 41
... reflecting , the air grew blacker , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation . 10 He now resolved to do what yet remained in his power , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and try to find some issue where the wood might ...
... reflecting , the air grew blacker , and a clap of thunder broke his meditation . 10 He now resolved to do what yet remained in his power , to tread back the ground which he had passed , and try to find some issue where the wood might ...
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