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Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure - Page 302
1750
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The British Essayists: Rambler

James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 466 pages
...exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected; and the future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 526 pages
...exhausted, all the events or actions which tin* memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying' man. He that grows old without religious hopes,...
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Murphy's essay. The rambler. The adventurer. The idler. Rasselas. Tales of ...

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; e dis is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: An essay on the life and genius of ...

Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure ore quickly recollected ; and tho future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes,...
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The Life and Writings of Samuel Johnson...

Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 334 pages
...exhausted; all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected; and the future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 624 pages
...exhausted, all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hopes,...
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Cicero's three books of offices ... also his Cato major ... Lælius ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...; all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure, are quickly recollected ; und the future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man." — Rambler, No. 69. * Pisistraius, tyrant...
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Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1850 - 368 pages
...; all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure, nre quickly recollected; anil the future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. I'iety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man." — Kanildcr, No. (!!(. * 7'ii'iA/rtf...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His Works

Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...exhausted; all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hope, as...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Choice Selections from His Works

Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...exhausted ; all the events or actions of which the memory can afford pleasure are quickly recollected ; and the future lies beyond the grave, where it can be reached only by virtue and devotion. Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religious hope, as...
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