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... pleasures and pastimes that contract the circle of our better qualities and actions , we should perseveringly avoid . With a view to obtain for ourselves these desi- rable and great advantages , we should seek to gain the knowledge of ...
... pleasures and pastimes that contract the circle of our better qualities and actions , we should perseveringly avoid . With a view to obtain for ourselves these desi- rable and great advantages , we should seek to gain the knowledge of ...
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... pleasures of intelligence , to appreciate their worth , must be sought with earnestness . To instruct the feelings in the soft , calm , and unobtrusive colourings of moral scenery , and to regulate our habits by associations of virtue ...
... pleasures of intelligence , to appreciate their worth , must be sought with earnestness . To instruct the feelings in the soft , calm , and unobtrusive colourings of moral scenery , and to regulate our habits by associations of virtue ...
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... pleasures , few cares , and a vigourous zest for enjoy- ment , unknown to the man of refined senses ; but the few and simple passions they experienced , the paucity of the means of gratification at their command , served rather to ...
... pleasures , few cares , and a vigourous zest for enjoy- ment , unknown to the man of refined senses ; but the few and simple passions they experienced , the paucity of the means of gratification at their command , served rather to ...
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... pleasures of a refined kind , which are rendered weak by presenting to our attention competing demands . To form useful and perma- nent habits , as in good book - keeping , the system of exami- nations and checks must be defined and ...
... pleasures of a refined kind , which are rendered weak by presenting to our attention competing demands . To form useful and perma- nent habits , as in good book - keeping , the system of exami- nations and checks must be defined and ...
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... pleasures . The young presume , and therefore , despise knowledge ; and the old in years , deride its precepts , and prefer to die blind- folded by their own obstinacy . From this cause , truth itself cannot advance , or be secure ...
... pleasures . The young presume , and therefore , despise knowledge ; and the old in years , deride its precepts , and prefer to die blind- folded by their own obstinacy . From this cause , truth itself cannot advance , or be secure ...
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acquirements acts advance advantages Aston Bottrel attainments attention beautiful become belong Bewdley blessings brain Bridgnorth bright Burwarton character circumstances civilized claims conduct contemplation conveyed Davis delight desires develope dignity discipline diseased ditto Mr G ditto Mr W duties enjoyment error esteem evil exalted exercise exhibit experience faculties felicity furnishes the means gives gratification habits happiness Haymoor higher highest human ignorance important impulses influence intel intellectual intelligence judgment knowledge labour learning living Ludlow mankind matter mental ments Meredith mind Minton Mongolian moral and social Mytton ditto Miss nature necessity Neenton nobler numerous objects observation obtain Oldswinford opinion organs ourselves Owens passions perfect permanent philosophy and science pleasures Popular Science possess precepts principles progress purity purposes pursuit reflection regulate reward rience rude rule secure shewing society Stanton Long Stourbridge Mr E superior talent tion truth uneducated utility virtues whilst wisdom Wolverhampton Wordsley yield
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Página 45 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wanton'd with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight ; and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Página 12 - Wise men now agree, or ought to agree in this, that there is but one way to the knowledge of Nature's works ; the way of observation and experiment. By our constitution, we have a strong propensity to trace particular facts and observations to general rules, and to apply such general rules to account for other effects, or to direct us in the production of them.
Página 15 - ... divine nature, become creaturely existing, or breathed forth from God, to stand before Him in the form of a creature. When the animals of this world were to be created, it was only said, Let the earth, the air, the water, bring forth creatures after their kinds; but when man was to be brought forth, it was said, Let us make man in our own image and likeness.
Página 35 - ... wise man more than the fool?... There is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in wickedness.... One man among a thousand have I found, but a woman among all those have I not found.... The race is not to the swift, the battle to the strong; neither bread to the wise, nor riches to the man of understanding.... On all things is written vanity.