The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.Hastings, Etheridge, and Bliss, 1809 |
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... pleasure , equips imagination in the spoil ? Life would be insupportable to an old man who , loaded with infirmities , feared death no more than when in the vigour of manhood ; the numberless calamities of decaying nature , and the ...
... pleasure , equips imagination in the spoil ? Life would be insupportable to an old man who , loaded with infirmities , feared death no more than when in the vigour of manhood ; the numberless calamities of decaying nature , and the ...
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... pleasure . The wisdom of the ignorant some- what resembles the instinct of animals ; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere , but within that circle it acts with vigour , uniformity , and success . Adieu . LETTER LXXVII . FROM THE ...
... pleasure . The wisdom of the ignorant some- what resembles the instinct of animals ; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere , but within that circle it acts with vigour , uniformity , and success . Adieu . LETTER LXXVII . FROM THE ...
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... pleasure . One player shines in an exclamation , another in a groan , a third in a horror , a fourth in a start , a fifth in a smile , a sixth faints , and a seventh fidgets round the stage with peculiar vivaci- ty ; that piece ...
... pleasure . One player shines in an exclamation , another in a groan , a third in a horror , a fourth in a start , a fifth in a smile , a sixth faints , and a seventh fidgets round the stage with peculiar vivaci- ty ; that piece ...
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... pleasure which attends the acquisition , and from the influence of knowledge in promoting practical morality . They who maintain the opposite opinion , display the happiness and innocence of those uncultivated nations who live without ...
... pleasure which attends the acquisition , and from the influence of knowledge in promoting practical morality . They who maintain the opposite opinion , display the happiness and innocence of those uncultivated nations who live without ...
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... pleasures , or our necessities . A desire of enjoy- ment first interests our passions in the pursuit , points out the object of ... pleasure impels him to pursue . When told of the exact admeasurement of a. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . 51.
... pleasures , or our necessities . A desire of enjoy- ment first interests our passions in the pursuit , points out the object of ... pleasure impels him to pursue . When told of the exact admeasurement of a. CITIZEN OF THE WORLD . 51.
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