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To say in what this happiness consists , or how it may certainly be had , is an
invidious task : because men of different tastes , dispositions , and capacities , not
only view the subject in different lights , but adopt opposite means to obtain it .
To say in what this happiness consists , or how it may certainly be had , is an
invidious task : because men of different tastes , dispositions , and capacities , not
only view the subject in different lights , but adopt opposite means to obtain it .
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To sympathy we are indebted for a thousand endearments in social life : it is the
bond of society : we feel ourselves interested in the general good ; we
experience more pleasure in communicating than in receiving the means of
happiness ...
To sympathy we are indebted for a thousand endearments in social life : it is the
bond of society : we feel ourselves interested in the general good ; we
experience more pleasure in communicating than in receiving the means of
happiness ...
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New expedients were therefore daily invented to tranquillize the mind , and no
means left untried to regain her wonted vivacity . But , alas ! the felicity of which
Lavinia was in pursuit , still eluded her eager grasp . Every day witnessed new ...
New expedients were therefore daily invented to tranquillize the mind , and no
means left untried to regain her wonted vivacity . But , alas ! the felicity of which
Lavinia was in pursuit , still eluded her eager grasp . Every day witnessed new ...
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-yet this is the life of thousands -- a life in which are to be found no traces of that
purity and perfection once connatural to man ; no evidence of compunction for
the violation of divine precepts , nor yet of thankfulness for the means by which
guilt ...
-yet this is the life of thousands -- a life in which are to be found no traces of that
purity and perfection once connatural to man ; no evidence of compunction for
the violation of divine precepts , nor yet of thankfulness for the means by which
guilt ...
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Nay , there are not only those who , like Gallio , care for none of these things , but
some that openly discard them ; who , though their sins bé as scarlet , cavil at the
means by which they might be made white as snow ; and though their iniquities ...
Nay , there are not only those who , like Gallio , care for none of these things , but
some that openly discard them ; who , though their sins bé as scarlet , cavil at the
means by which they might be made white as snow ; and though their iniquities ...
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Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Refuge |
| Autor | William Giles |
| Editor | At the Lorenzo Press, printed for Bronson & Chauncey, 1804 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de California |
| Digitalizado | 23 Abr. 2009 |
| Largo | 257 páginas |
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