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The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia: A Tale - Page 151
by Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 264 pages
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SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 pages
...that fociety which dt" bars them from its privileges,, To live without feeling or ex" citing fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than folitude: it is not retreat but exclufion from...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 20

Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1759 - 636 pages
...that fociety which de" bars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or ex" citing fyrnpathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a (rate more gloomy than folitude: it is not retreat but exclufion from...
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale : in Two Volumes, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1759 - 184 pages
...as the out-laws of human nature, make it their bufinefs and their pleafure to difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or affli&ed without tafling the...
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An Introduction to the Most Useful European Languages ...: Select Passages ...

Giuseppe Baretti - 1772 - 490 pages
...as the out-laws of human nature, make it their buiinefs and their pleasure to difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live •without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or to be affiifted without tailing...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Tales and visions: The history of ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 546 pages
...and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their bufinefs and their pleafure to diilurb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflidted without tafting the...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their bufinefs and their pleafure to difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the...
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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. The vision of Theodore. The ...

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...as the outlaws of human nature, make it their bufinefs and their pleafure to jdifturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflidted without lading the...
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The Prince of Abissinia: A Tale

Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 pages
...fociety which debars them from its privileges, To live with" out out feeling or exciting fympathy, to be .fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tafting the balm of pity, is a ftate more gloomy than folitude : it is not retreat, but exclufion from...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: A dissertation upon the Greek comedy ...

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...and, as the outlaws of human nature, make it their bufmefs and their pleafure to difturb that fociety which debars them from its privileges. To live without feeling or exciting fympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicTred without tafting the...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden, Now First ...

John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...marriages are preferable to cheerless celibacy." — " To live, (add* the same writer, in another place,) without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate...Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures." mcy with her, confining their intercourse to mere Tkits of ceremony ; ' nor does she appear to hare...
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