The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: Including a Variety of Pieces, Volumen 1John Murray, 1837 |
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... pleasure was to be sold , he was generally foremost to raise the auction . Being an universal admirer of the fair sex , when he found one lady cruel , he generally fell in love with another , from whom he expected a more favourable ...
... pleasure was to be sold , he was generally foremost to raise the auction . Being an universal admirer of the fair sex , when he found one lady cruel , he generally fell in love with another , from whom he expected a more favourable ...
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... pleasure in increasing the enormous mass , as the miser who owns it , sees happiness in its increase . Nor is there in this any thing repugnant to the laws of true morality . Seneca himself allows , that in conferring benefits , the ...
... pleasure in increasing the enormous mass , as the miser who owns it , sees happiness in its increase . Nor is there in this any thing repugnant to the laws of true morality . Seneca himself allows , that in conferring benefits , the ...
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... pleasure ; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt : the mind may for some time fluctuate between them , but it never can entertain both together . Yet , let it not be thought that I would exclude pity from the human mind . There is ...
... pleasure ; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt : the mind may for some time fluctuate between them , but it never can entertain both together . Yet , let it not be thought that I would exclude pity from the human mind . There is ...
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... pleasure , and make , from imaginary wants , real necessities . But few , very few , correspond to this ex- aggerated picture ; and , perhaps , there is not one in whom all these circumstances are found united . Instead of this , we ...
... pleasure , and make , from imaginary wants , real necessities . But few , very few , correspond to this ex- aggerated picture ; and , perhaps , there is not one in whom all these circumstances are found united . Instead of this , we ...
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... pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling , without being ever actually down . Every science has its hitherto undiscovered mysteries , after which men should travel undiscouraged by the failure of former adventurers . Every new ...
... pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling , without being ever actually down . Every science has its hitherto undiscovered mysteries , after which men should travel undiscouraged by the failure of former adventurers . Every new ...
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