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Page 14
... virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never paffion difcompos'd the mind : But ALL fubfifts by elemental ftrife ; And Paffions are the Elements of Life . The genral Order , fince the whole began , Is Kept in Nature ...
... virtue here ; That never air or ocean felt the wind ; That never paffion difcompos'd the mind : But ALL fubfifts by elemental ftrife ; And Paffions are the Elements of Life . The genral Order , fince the whole began , Is Kept in Nature ...
Page 34
... virtue , fenfe and reafon Split , With all the rafh dexterity of wit . Wits , just like fools , at war about a name , Have full as oft , no meaning , or the fame . Self - love and reafon to one end afpire , Pain their averfion ...
... virtue , fenfe and reafon Split , With all the rafh dexterity of wit . Wits , just like fools , at war about a name , Have full as oft , no meaning , or the fame . Self - love and reafon to one end afpire , Pain their averfion ...
Page 37
... virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost , Contracted all , retiring to the breaft ; But ftrength of mind is exercife , not rest : The rifing tempeft puts in act the foul , Parts it may ravage , but preferves the whole . On life's vaft ...
... virtue fix'd ; ' tis fix'd as in a frost , Contracted all , retiring to the breaft ; But ftrength of mind is exercife , not rest : The rifing tempeft puts in act the foul , Parts it may ravage , but preferves the whole . On life's vaft ...
Page 42
... virtue , male or female , can we name , But what will grow on pride , or grow on fhame . THUS Nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) 185 The virtue nearest to our vise ally'd ; 180 dominante , conftamment jettés à une certaine côte ...
... virtue , male or female , can we name , But what will grow on pride , or grow on fhame . THUS Nature gives us ( let it check our pride ) 185 The virtue nearest to our vise ally'd ; 180 dominante , conftamment jettés à une certaine côte ...
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... virtue , or begins the vice . FOOLS ! who from hence into the notion fall , That Vice or Virtue there is none at all . If white and black , blend , foften , and unite A thousand ways , is there no black or white ? K 190 195 200 Afk your ...
... virtue , or begins the vice . FOOLS ! who from hence into the notion fall , That Vice or Virtue there is none at all . If white and black , blend , foften , and unite A thousand ways , is there no black or white ? K 190 195 200 Afk your ...
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