 | 1830 - 622 páginas
...to the young it is a very different thing, particularly perhaps at twenty years of age. We are jnst come into the possession of all our faculties, and...spreads before us all its allurements ; knowledge unrolls its ample page. We have every thing to learn, and every thing to enjoy. Ambition proffers its... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 páginas
...dream. Julian was young, and had seen little of the diversified scenes of human life. Existence isa thing that is regarded in a very different light by...Pleasure spreads before us all its allurements; knowledge unrolls its ample page. We have every thing to learn, and every thing to enjoy. Ambition proffers its... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1904 - 454 páginas
...the society of the companions he had left in the Apennines. He did not desire any new connexions ; he would have shrunk from the encounter of new faces....spreads before us all its allurements ; knowledge unrolls its ample page. We have every thing to learn, and every thing to enjoy. Ambition proffers its... | |
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But to the young it is a very different thing, particularly perhaps at twenty years of age. We are just come into the possession of all our faculties, and begin fully to be aware of our own independence. Every thing is new to us ; and the larger half... 