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... possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disappointing , is in constant search of care ' , solicitude , remorse ' , and confusion ' . " " To advise the ignorant , relieve the ...
... possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it , which are in their very nature disappointing , is in constant search of care ' , solicitude , remorse ' , and confusion ' . " " To advise the ignorant , relieve the ...
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... possession can make the guilty mind happy , 2. Change of external condition often adverse to virtue , 1 3. Haman ; or the misery of pride , 4. Lady Jane Gray , 5. Ortogrul ; or the vanity of riches , 6. The hill of science , 7. The ...
... possession can make the guilty mind happy , 2. Change of external condition often adverse to virtue , 1 3. Haman ; or the misery of pride , 4. Lady Jane Gray , 5. Ortogrul ; or the vanity of riches , 6. The hill of science , 7. The ...
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... possession is to be chiefly estimated , by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell ...
... possession is to be chiefly estimated , by the relief which it can bring us in the time of our greatest need . No person who has once yielded up the government of his mind , and given loose rein to his desires and passions , can tell ...
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... possession as violent Manger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; dis- torts / the appearance , and blackens the colour of every object . By the storms which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without ...
... possession as violent Manger . It overpowers reason ; confounds our ideas ; dis- torts / the appearance , and blackens the colour of every object . By the storms which it raises within , and by the mischiefs which it occasions without ...
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... possession of on mind , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tran quillity . E 1 1 Every man has some ... possessed of strong virtue , could enjoyi self in peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortun and the ...
... possession of on mind , we may date , from that moment , the ruin of our tran quillity . E 1 1 Every man has some ... possessed of strong virtue , could enjoyi self in peace , and smile at the impotent assaults of fortun and the ...
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affections alogy Antiparos appear Archbishop of Cambray Aristotle attention balance of happiness beauty behold BLAIR blessing Caius Verres character Charybdis comforts consider creatures death Democritus Dioclesian distress divine dread earth enemies enjoy enjoyment envy ev'ry evil eyes father favour feel folly fortune friendship Fundanus give ground happiness Hazael heart heaven Heraclitus honour hope human indulge innocent intercourse Jugurtha kind king labour live look Lord mankind manner melan ment Micipsa midst mind misery Mount Aetna nature never noble Numidia o'er objects ourselves pain pass passions pause peace perfection person philosopher plaius pleasures possession present prince proper Pythias reading reason religion render rest rich rise scene SECTION sense sentence shining Sicily smile sorrow soul sound spirit suffer temper tempest thee things thou art thought tion vanity verse vice virtue virtuous voice wisdom wise wish words youth
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Page 221 - And nightly to the list'ning earth Repeats the story of her birth : Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 226 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 227 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 175 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 214 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 184 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied, for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant* sung; Silence was...
Page 239 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect in a hair as heart ; As full, as perfect in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns. To Him no high, no low, no great, no small ; He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all.
Page 215 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise.
Page 170 - Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours : Safety consists not in escape From dangers of a frightful shape ; An earthquake may be bid to spare The man that's strangled by a hair. Fate steals along with silent tread, Found oftenest in what least we dread, Frowns in the storm with angry brow, But in the sunshine strikes the blow.
Page 234 - And that myself am blind; Yet gave me, in this dark estate, To see the good from ill ; And binding nature fast in fate. Left free the human will.