Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive Vagaries. Now First Collected, Volume 1 |
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... pleasure is perpetually streaming into us through the eye , to whose sensations the green livery of Nature has been rendered peculiarly grateful and refreshing . This little organ , like the vases of the Belides , is never filled ...
... pleasure is perpetually streaming into us through the eye , to whose sensations the green livery of Nature has been rendered peculiarly grateful and refreshing . This little organ , like the vases of the Belides , is never filled ...
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... Pleasures of bodily perception he shares with the beasts that perish ; but what a new creation of un- bounded beatitude is opened to him by the possession of the reasoning faculty , and the consciousness of an immortal soul ! The ...
... Pleasures of bodily perception he shares with the beasts that perish ; but what a new creation of un- bounded beatitude is opened to him by the possession of the reasoning faculty , and the consciousness of an immortal soul ! The ...
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... pleasures . Of the laws which regulate the mysterious union of mind and matter we know little or nothing : experience teaches us , however , that the health of the sentient faculty is governed by that of our organisation ; and as most ...
... pleasures . Of the laws which regulate the mysterious union of mind and matter we know little or nothing : experience teaches us , however , that the health of the sentient faculty is governed by that of our organisation ; and as most ...
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... pleasure in prating about their pains : the ingenuity of their selfishness rivals the skill of the bee who extracts honey from nettles . They obtain a growth of fresh joys by manuring their minds with misery , and build up a new 32 ...
... pleasure in prating about their pains : the ingenuity of their selfishness rivals the skill of the bee who extracts honey from nettles . They obtain a growth of fresh joys by manuring their minds with misery , and build up a new 32 ...
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... pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh , You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy . ” Now surely this is a very sorry and pitiful way of playing the fool . A Merry - Andrew is despicable enough ; occasionally we ...
... pleasure That fills my bosom when I sigh , You would not rob me of a treasure Monarchs are too poor to buy . ” Now surely this is a very sorry and pitiful way of playing the fool . A Merry - Andrew is despicable enough ; occasionally we ...
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