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... insensibility , a fool , he was such an ideot , as philosophers should wish to imitate ; for all philosophy is only forcing the trade of happiness , when Nature seems to deny the means . They who , like our slave , can place themselves ...
... insensibility , a fool , he was such an ideot , as philosophers should wish to imitate ; for all philosophy is only forcing the trade of happiness , when Nature seems to deny the means . They who , like our slave , can place themselves ...
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... insensibility , or even idi- otism ; it is happiness to ourselves ; and none but a fool would measure his satisfaction by what the world thinks of it . For my own part , I never pass by one of our prisons for debt , that I do not envy ...
... insensibility , or even idi- otism ; it is happiness to ourselves ; and none but a fool would measure his satisfaction by what the world thinks of it . For my own part , I never pass by one of our prisons for debt , that I do not envy ...
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Preceptive, Moral, and Sentimental Pieces: On the Duties of the Young, Issue 10 Hugh Blair,Rollin,Thomas Percival No preview available - 2016 |
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Almanack animal without feathers animating some happier ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD appears ard says aspiring disposition auction beauteous feathers burst the prison callow infancy Chinvang creditor diligence disposition and unbounded distress dress EDWARD PERCIVAL ENDEARED BY AGE ENJOYMENTS OF EARLY EPITAPH Father Abraham fledged pinions folly fool FRENCH OF GANGANELLI friends frugality GOLDSMITH grated prison happier form happy Elysium harmonious sorrow hath health to enjoy heap of beauteous heard to petition hope for retribution hope of animating humour idle indignant soul burst innocence can hope keep left a lifeless legged animal lifeless heap live Mathematician Mathematics mour ness never oft-removed person of unblemished philosophy pitiless hands pleasure Poor Dick Poor Rich Poor Richard says pride purse RICHARD ACANTHUS RICHARD SAUNDERS rough and pitiless run in debt Sloth sure thee thing thou tired with fruitless unalienable rights undoubted charter view those fields violent clamours WEALTH