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... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so- cial , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy ...
... hour , his useless intentions and barren zeal . The spirit of true religion breathes mildness and affability . It gives a native , unaffected ease to the behaviour . It is so- cial , kind , and cheerful ; far removed from that gloomy ...
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... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . } SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , 18 PART L ...
... hours with comfort , to lay up such a treasure of pleasing ideas , as shall support the expenses of that time , which is to depend wholly upon the fund already acquired . } SECTION V. WHAT avails the show of external liberty , 18 PART L ...
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... hours so lingering ? Who are so often devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help them to get rid of themselves ? Instead of producing tranquillity , indolence produces a fretful restlessness of mind ...
... hours so lingering ? Who are so often devoured with spleen , and obliged to fly to every expedient , which can help them to get rid of themselves ? Instead of producing tranquillity , indolence produces a fretful restlessness of mind ...
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... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body car- ried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirmed by the reports which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
... hour should bring her to a like fate . She even saw his headless body car- ried back in a cart ; and found herself more confirmed by the reports which she heard of the constancy of his end , than shaken by so tender and melancholy a ...
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... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country , in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and , as he stood on the top of a ...
... hours passed in violent fluctuation of opinion , sleep insensibly seized him in his chair . He dreamed that he was ranging a desert country , in search of some one that might teach him to grow rich ; and , as he stood on the top of a ...
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Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray attention Bayle beauty behold BLAIR blessing bliss breast Caius Verres cheerful dark death delight Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enjoy enjoyment envy eternal ev'ry evil eyes father favour fear feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground hand happiness hast Hazael heart heav'n HERACLITUS honour hope human indulge Jugurtha kind king labours live look Lord mankind mercy Micipsa midst mind misery mount Etna nature nature's never night noble Numidia o'er pain Pamphylia passions pause peace perfect person pleasures possession pow'r praise pride prince proper Pythias racter religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION sense shade shine Sicily smiles solitude sorrow soul sound spect spirit spring sweet tears temper tempest thee things thou art thought tion truth Tuning sweet vanity virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise youth