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... prudence ; a brave and generous mind is long before it suspects its own weakness , or submits to sap the difficulties which it expected to subdue by storm . Before disappointments have enforced the dic- tates of philosophy , we believe ...
... prudence ; a brave and generous mind is long before it suspects its own weakness , or submits to sap the difficulties which it expected to subdue by storm . Before disappointments have enforced the dic- tates of philosophy , we believe ...
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... prudence and resolution , and must there- fore be recounted rather as consolations to those who are less liberally endowed , than as discouragements to such as are born with uncommon qualities . Beauty is well known to draw after it the ...
... prudence and resolution , and must there- fore be recounted rather as consolations to those who are less liberally endowed , than as discouragements to such as are born with uncommon qualities . Beauty is well known to draw after it the ...
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... prudence and circumspection , that after six years the will was made , and Juvenculus was declared heir . But unhappily , a month afterwards , re- tiring at night from his uncle's chamber , he left the door open behind him ; the old man ...
... prudence and circumspection , that after six years the will was made , and Juvenculus was declared heir . But unhappily , a month afterwards , re- tiring at night from his uncle's chamber , he left the door open behind him ; the old man ...
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... prudence lies between the greatest things and the least ; some surpass our power by their magnitude , and some escape our notice by their num ber and their frequency . But the indispensible busi- ness of life will afford sufficient ...
... prudence lies between the greatest things and the least ; some surpass our power by their magnitude , and some escape our notice by their num ber and their frequency . But the indispensible busi- ness of life will afford sufficient ...
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... prudence so timorous , as to decline them . Even those that have most reverence for the laws of right , are pleased with showing that not fear , but choice , regulates their behaviour ; and would be thought to comply , rather than obey ...
... prudence so timorous , as to decline them . Even those that have most reverence for the laws of right , are pleased with showing that not fear , but choice , regulates their behaviour ; and would be thought to comply , rather than obey ...
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Page 184 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 180 - And buried; but, O yet more miserable! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 202 - Venus, take my votive glass, Since I am not what I was ; What from this day I shall be, venus, let me never see.
Page 177 - Be of good courage, I begin to feel Some rousing motions in me, which dispose To something extraordinary my thoughts.
Page 174 - From off the altar, where an offering burn'd, As in a fiery column charioting His godlike presence, and from some great act Or benefit reveal'd to Abraham's race? Why was my breeding order'd and prescrib'd As of a person separate to God...
Page 13 - That its greater part is covered by the uninhabitable ocean ; that of the rest some is encumbered with naked mountains, and some lost under barren sands ; some scorched with unintermitted heat, and some petrified with perpetual frost ; so that only a few regions remain for the production of fruits, the pasture of cattle, and the accommodation of man.
Page 49 - The obligations to assist the exercise of public justice are indeed strong: but they will certainly be overpowered by tenderness for life. What is punished with severity contrary to our ideas of adequate retribution, will be seldom discovered;. and multitudes will be suffered to advance from crime to crime, till they deserve death, because, if they had been sooner prosecuted, they would have suffered death before they deserved it.
Page 107 - twill not be your best advice: 'Twill only give me pains of writing twice. You know you must obey me, soon or late: Why should you vainly struggle with your fate?
Page 4 - No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes, than a publick library ; for who can see the wall crowded on every side by mighty volumes, the works of laborious meditation and accurate inquiry, now scarcely known but by the catalogue...
Page 165 - To lessen that disdain with which scholars are inclined to look on the common business of the world, and the unwillingness with which they condescend to learn what is not to be found in any system of philosophy, it may be necessary to consider, that though admiration is excited by abstruse researches and remote discoveries, yet pleasure is not given, nor affection conciliated, but by softer accomplishments, and qualities more easily communicable to those about us.