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Pagina 19
... miserable by the tyranny exercised upon them , and are themselves the cause of misery to their fellow citizens by the tyranny they exercise . But it will be said , they defend the country from foreign enemies . Alas ! could a foreign ...
... miserable by the tyranny exercised upon them , and are themselves the cause of misery to their fellow citizens by the tyranny they exercise . But it will be said , they defend the country from foreign enemies . Alas ! could a foreign ...
Pagina 27
... sick capriciously . Hence a miserable melan- cholic shall labour under a double disease ; the internal one of his own bad feelings , and the external FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 27 little than a great deal of money; for "...
... sick capriciously . Hence a miserable melan- cholic shall labour under a double disease ; the internal one of his own bad feelings , and the external FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 27 little than a great deal of money; for "...
Pagina 50
... miserable , until after he had fled to alcohol for consolation . The habit of vinous indulgence is not more pernicious , than it is obstinate and pertinacious in its hold , when it has once fastened itself upon the constitution . It is ...
... miserable , until after he had fled to alcohol for consolation . The habit of vinous indulgence is not more pernicious , than it is obstinate and pertinacious in its hold , when it has once fastened itself upon the constitution . It is ...
Pagina 53
... miserable existence in some infirmary or poorhouse , till death shall relieve him of his pain , and the world of a burden . And the pitiful assistance , which is granted by the rich , to their sick , decrepit , or superan- nuated slave ...
... miserable existence in some infirmary or poorhouse , till death shall relieve him of his pain , and the world of a burden . And the pitiful assistance , which is granted by the rich , to their sick , decrepit , or superan- nuated slave ...
Pagina 55
... miserable enough ; but there was a time when they were by no means so unfortunate . There was a time when , comparatively speaking , they were savages ; when FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 55 do a certain action the result of any previous ...
... miserable enough ; but there was a time when they were by no means so unfortunate . There was a time when , comparatively speaking , they were savages ; when FROM THE BEST AUTHORS . 55 do a certain action the result of any previous ...
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Pagina 110 - After the moon. If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.
Pagina 27 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 144 - What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN...
Pagina 88 - Indeed, if a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter...
Pagina 209 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Pagina 222 - You see, Sir, that in this enlightened age I am bold enough to confess that we are generally men of untaught feelings : that, instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree...
Pagina 204 - Whether any kind of gaming has even thus much to say for itself, I shall not determine ; but I think it is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards...
Pagina 222 - We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.
Pagina 184 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Pagina 208 - ... a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both; whereas common speakers have only one set of ideas, and one set of words to clothe them in, and these are always ready at the mouth. So people come faster out of...