Essays on Various Subjects: in which Some Characters of the Present Age are Introduced: By M. de la Garde, ... To which is Added Some Poetical Pieces, by Mrs. GuppyR. Edwards; and sold by T. Hurst, London, 1800 - 103 pages |
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... never enter an honeft mind till it has become the victim of them therefore the virtuous man may fometimes exult in having been deceived , as it is a proof of the fair- nefs of his own mind . He looks down with pity and contempt on the ...
... never enter an honeft mind till it has become the victim of them therefore the virtuous man may fometimes exult in having been deceived , as it is a proof of the fair- nefs of his own mind . He looks down with pity and contempt on the ...
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... never tir'd ; Never elated while one man's oppreft ; Never dejected , while another's bleft ; And where no wants , no wishes can remain , Since but to wish more virtue is to gain . See the fole blifs Heav'n could on man beftow , Which ...
... never tir'd ; Never elated while one man's oppreft ; Never dejected , while another's bleft ; And where no wants , no wishes can remain , Since but to wish more virtue is to gain . See the fole blifs Heav'n could on man beftow , Which ...
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... never poffeffed ; and when time and experience convince us that we have been deceived , we complain of the falsehood of human - kind , without confidering that it is our imagina- tion which has mifled our judgment . Perfection is not ...
... never poffeffed ; and when time and experience convince us that we have been deceived , we complain of the falsehood of human - kind , without confidering that it is our imagina- tion which has mifled our judgment . Perfection is not ...
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... never forget that it is one of the moft facred duties of friendship to throw a veil over fuch defects as a ftrict intimacy may lead us to dif cover in the moft perfect of human beings . Without candour there can be no friendship : when ...
... never forget that it is one of the moft facred duties of friendship to throw a veil over fuch defects as a ftrict intimacy may lead us to dif cover in the moft perfect of human beings . Without candour there can be no friendship : when ...
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... never pays . Tradesmen have be- come bankrupts , through not receiv- ing what he owed them : he takes advantage of the kindness of his friends to borrow money from them , which he never returns . Such is the private conduct of one who ...
... never pays . Tradesmen have be- come bankrupts , through not receiv- ing what he owed them : he takes advantage of the kindness of his friends to borrow money from them , which he never returns . Such is the private conduct of one who ...
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ACASTUS accompliſhments adverfity affectation appear attended beftow bleffed bleft blifs bliſs boaft boundleſs Clarinda cloſe comfort confidered conftant conſciouſneſs converfation defirable degrade themſelves diſappointed diſeaſe earth ESSAY ESSAY eſteem exult fafely faid fatisfaction fays fcene feel feem feldom felves fenfible fentiments fhall fhare fhew fhould firſt flander flave fmiles fome fometimes foon fortune foul fpirit friends friendſhip ftate ftill fubject fuch fuffered fuperior furprifing goodneſs greateſt grief GUPPY happineſs happy heart himſelf human indulge inftruction intereft itſelf juft juftice kindneſs laft leaft lefs liften lofs loft mind moft mortal moſt muft muſt never old age ORONTES ourſelves paffions perfons pleafing pleaſed pleaſure poffeffed prefent pride profpect purpoſes raiſe refpect ſcene ſee ſenſe ſhall ſmiling ſpent ſtate ſtill thee thefe THEODOSIUS theſe bodies thofe thoſe we love thou thouſand tion trifles underſtanding unleſs uſeful vanity virtue whilft whofe whoſe wiſdom wiſh youth
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Page 21 - Pursues that chain which links th' immense design, Joins Heaven and Earth, and mortal and divine ; Sees, that no being any bliss can know, But touches some above, and some below ; Learns from this union of the rising whole The first, last purpose of the human soul ; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, • All end in love of God, and love of man.
Page 22 - The centre mov'd, a circle straight succeeds, Another still, and still another spreads ; Friend, parent, neighbour, first it will embrace ; His country next, and next all human race ; Wide and more wide, th...
Page 94 - For what is this life but a circulation of little mean actions? We lie down and rise again, dress and undress, feed and wax hungry, work or play, and are weary, and then we lie down again, and the circle returns.
Page 20 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is bless'd in what it takes and what it gives ; The joy unequall'd if its end it gain, And, if it lose, attended with no pain ; Without satiety...
Page 22 - In one close system of Benevolence: Happier as kinder, in whate'er degree, And height of Bliss but height of Charity. God loves from Whole to Parts: but human soul Must rise from Individual to the Whole.
Page 20 - Know then this truth (enough for man to know) 'Virtue alone is happiness below.
Page 29 - Parent of thousand wild desires, The savage and the human breast Torments alike with raging fires; With bright, but oft destructive, gleam, Alike o'er all his lightnings fly ; Thy lambent glories only beam Around the fav'rites of the sky.
Page 21 - Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through nature up to nature's God...
Page 13 - THE man refolv'd and fteady to his truft, Inflexible to ill, and obftinately juft, May the rude rabble's infolence defpife, Their fenfelefs clamours and tumultuous cries ; The tyrant's fiercenefs he beguiles, And the ftern brow, and the harfli voice defies, And with fuperior greatnefs fmiles.
Page 20 - And but more relish'd as the more distress'd ; The broadest mirth unfeeling Folly wears Less pleasing far than Virtue's very tears...