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... This * This , indeed , is making up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds , with one set of furniture for show and another for use . B enigma will allow but of one solution ; namely , Appeal to Truth and Reason.
... This * This , indeed , is making up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds , with one set of furniture for show and another for use . B enigma will allow but of one solution ; namely , Appeal to Truth and Reason.
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Joel Pinney. enigma will allow but of one solution ; namely , that men make their reason subservient to their appe- tites ; till at length they come to regard immediate gratification as the highest good , and scruple not to indulge in ...
Joel Pinney. enigma will allow but of one solution ; namely , that men make their reason subservient to their appe- tites ; till at length they come to regard immediate gratification as the highest good , and scruple not to indulge in ...
الصفحة 35
... namely , to practise when in health what is necessary to preserve that health ; and , so far from requiring the abandonment of the real pleasures of the table , it actually permits all the edible productions of the earth to be taken to ...
... namely , to practise when in health what is necessary to preserve that health ; and , so far from requiring the abandonment of the real pleasures of the table , it actually permits all the edible productions of the earth to be taken to ...
الصفحة 38
... at once suggest itself ; namely , a depar- ture from the simplicity observed by our forefathers , and the adoption of an artificial mode of living in its room . While men lived according to nature , and were strangers Indolence and Luxury.
... at once suggest itself ; namely , a depar- ture from the simplicity observed by our forefathers , and the adoption of an artificial mode of living in its room . While men lived according to nature , and were strangers Indolence and Luxury.
الصفحة 48
... ( namely , break- fast and dinner ) are quite sufficient for one day . Those , however , who adhere to the ancient custom of dining at one , may take a light supper without detriment ; but be it ever borne in mind , that to resort to any ...
... ( namely , break- fast and dinner ) are quite sufficient for one day . Those , however , who adhere to the ancient custom of dining at one , may take a light supper without detriment ; but be it ever borne in mind , that to resort to any ...
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الصفحة 128 - Happy the man - and happy he alone He who can call today his own, He who, secure within, can say 'Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed in spite of Fate are mine: Not Heaven itself upon the Past has power, But what has been has been, and I have had my hour.
الصفحة 87 - Adam, and submit. But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust? There is, said Michael, if thou well observe The rule of not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight...
الصفحة 92 - And the fear of you, and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air...
الصفحة 4 - Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write ; but error is a scribbled one, from which we must first erase.
الصفحة 133 - Father William replied, I remember'd that youth would fly fast, And abused not my health and my vigour at first, That I never might need them at last. You are old, Father William...
الصفحة 65 - Falsely luxurious, will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due and sacred song ? For is there aught in sleep "Can charm the wise ? To lie in dead oblivion, losing half The fleeting moments of too short a life ; Total extinction of th' enlighten'd soul ! Or else to feverish vanity alive, Wilderd, and tossing through distemper'd dreams?
الصفحة 92 - The teeming earth, yet guiltless of the plough, And unprovoked, did fruitful stores allow : Content with food which nature freely bred, On wildings and on strawberries they fed; Cornels and bramble-berries gave the rest, And falling acorns furnished out a feast The flowers, unsown, in fields and meadows reigned ; And western winds immortal spring maintained.
الصفحة 73 - Behold the labourer of the glebe, who toils In dust, in rain, in cold and sultry skies ! Save but the grain from mildews and the flood, Nought anxious he what sickly stars ascend. He knows no laws by Esculapius given; He studies none. Yet him nor midnight fogs Infest, nor those envenom'd shafts that fly When rabid Sirius fires th
الصفحة 77 - With dim mortality. It is not air That from a thousand lungs reeks back to thine, Sated with exhalations rank and fell, The spoil of dunghills, and the putrid thaw Of nature...