The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Volume 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 - Quotations |
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... pleasure , without breaking the thread , or interrupting the chain of reasoning . " IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . PHILADELPHIA : LEA & BLANCHARD , SUCCESSORS TO CAREY & co . ...... THE NE PUBLIC ? K RY 243019 ACTOR .. * 1839 . THE ...
... pleasure , without breaking the thread , or interrupting the chain of reasoning . " IN TWO VOLUMES . VOL . II . PHILADELPHIA : LEA & BLANCHARD , SUCCESSORS TO CAREY & co . ...... THE NE PUBLIC ? K RY 243019 ACTOR .. * 1839 . THE ...
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... pleasure can be tasted by man ; without liberty , no happiness can be enjoyed by society . — Bolingbroke . D. Ignorance . It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance ; for it requires knowledge to perceive it ; and ...
... pleasure can be tasted by man ; without liberty , no happiness can be enjoyed by society . — Bolingbroke . D. Ignorance . It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance ; for it requires knowledge to perceive it ; and ...
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... pleasure they can in- vent , without having at the same time great multitudes of people that , to make good this defect , will condescend to be quite the reverse , and by use and patience inure their bodies to work for others and ...
... pleasure they can in- vent , without having at the same time great multitudes of people that , to make good this defect , will condescend to be quite the reverse , and by use and patience inure their bodies to work for others and ...
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... pleasures so great , that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overbalance them . - Those , therefore , of the above descrip- tion , that should rail against matrimony , should be in- formed , that they are neither to wonder ...
... pleasures so great , that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overbalance them . - Those , therefore , of the above descrip- tion , that should rail against matrimony , should be in- formed , that they are neither to wonder ...
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... Pleasure . - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters , Pain and Pleasure . It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do , as well as to determine what we shall do . On the one hand , the standard ...
... Pleasure . - Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters , Pain and Pleasure . It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do , as well as to determine what we shall do . On the one hand , the standard ...
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