A treatise on happiness [by J. Flamank].1833 |
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... never so unhappy as when he was a prince . " Louis XIII . was victorious in his wars ; powerful among the states of Europe ; tran- quil in his kingdom ; fortunate in his wife ; and fa- voured with regard to his children : and yet , with ...
... never so unhappy as when he was a prince . " Louis XIII . was victorious in his wars ; powerful among the states of Europe ; tran- quil in his kingdom ; fortunate in his wife ; and fa- voured with regard to his children : and yet , with ...
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... never acquire . Those who write much , and espe- cially those who sit to write , gradually become round - shouldered ; and , sometimes , one shoulder becomes higher than the other . If a person stoops very much , the ligaments of the ...
... never acquire . Those who write much , and espe- cially those who sit to write , gradually become round - shouldered ; and , sometimes , one shoulder becomes higher than the other . If a person stoops very much , the ligaments of the ...
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... never intermarry with other nations ; and yet , in Europe , the Jew is white ; in Spain he is rather swarthy ; in Persia he is brown ; and in every country he acquires the peculiar complexion of the inhabitants . If it is so with the ...
... never intermarry with other nations ; and yet , in Europe , the Jew is white ; in Spain he is rather swarthy ; in Persia he is brown ; and in every country he acquires the peculiar complexion of the inhabitants . If it is so with the ...
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... never continue to eat until his stomach becomes oppressed . He should finish his meal with an inclination or a capability of eating more ; and thus he will be more vigor- ous and cheerful than if he crammed himself with a greater ...
... never continue to eat until his stomach becomes oppressed . He should finish his meal with an inclination or a capability of eating more ; and thus he will be more vigor- ous and cheerful than if he crammed himself with a greater ...
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... never drink hot fluids when he is cold , nor cold fluids when he is hot . " This practice , " observes Locke , " brings more people to the grave , or to the brink of it , by fevers and other disorders , than any thing I know . " A full ...
... never drink hot fluids when he is cold , nor cold fluids when he is hot . " This practice , " observes Locke , " brings more people to the grave , or to the brink of it , by fevers and other disorders , than any thing I know . " A full ...
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Page 117 - What sights of ugly death within mine eyes ! Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks ; A thousand men that fishes gnaw'd upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea.
Page 203 - Thro' the azure deep of air : Yet oft before his infant eyes would run Such forms as glitter in the Muse's ray, With orient hues, unborrow'd of the sun : Yet shall he mount, and keep his distant way Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the Good how far — but far above the Great.
Page 49 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 289 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 291 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Page 205 - Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear : Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village- Hampden, that, with dauntless breast, The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 183 - True wit is nature to advantage dress'd ; What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd ; Something, whose truth, convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind.
Page 202 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 293 - And ever against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running; Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony: That Orpheus...
Page 224 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.