The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, المجلد 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... happiness ; which dwell not in the extremes of poverty or riches . As throughout the various regions of the earth , advan- tages and inconveniences are distributed with a more im- partial hand than we , on a transitory view , are apt to ...
... happiness ; which dwell not in the extremes of poverty or riches . As throughout the various regions of the earth , advan- tages and inconveniences are distributed with a more im- partial hand than we , on a transitory view , are apt to ...
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... happiness and misery , to science and ignorance , to war and peace , to liberty and despot ism , " Hitherto shalt thou go , and no farther . " These amazing instances of infinite wisdom in the economy of things , presenting every where ...
... happiness and misery , to science and ignorance , to war and peace , to liberty and despot ism , " Hitherto shalt thou go , and no farther . " These amazing instances of infinite wisdom in the economy of things , presenting every where ...
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... says to the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve yourself ; " to the latter , " In choosing the best means to secure your own happiness , you will 2 * FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 13 ladies in England had, till within these very few ...
... says to the former , " Serve mankind , and you serve yourself ; " to the latter , " In choosing the best means to secure your own happiness , you will 2 * FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 13 ladies in England had, till within these very few ...
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... happiness , you will have the sublime inducement of promoting the happiness of mankind . " The second excellence of knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive ...
... happiness , you will have the sublime inducement of promoting the happiness of mankind . " The second excellence of knowledge is , that even the selfish man , when he has once begun to love virtue from little motives , loses the motive ...
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... Happiness in our Present State is impossible.- Our nature is inseparable from desires , and the very word desire ( the craving for something not possessed ) implies that our present felicity is not complete . - Hobbes . XXXIV . Beauty ...
... Happiness in our Present State is impossible.- Our nature is inseparable from desires , and the very word desire ( the craving for something not possessed ) implies that our present felicity is not complete . - Hobbes . XXXIV . Beauty ...
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