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Page 27
... wish for . The hiftories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of inftances of this - na- ture , where favourable times and lucky accidents have done for them , what wif- dom or skill could not : and there is scarce any one who has ...
... wish for . The hiftories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of inftances of this - na- ture , where favourable times and lucky accidents have done for them , what wif- dom or skill could not : and there is scarce any one who has ...
Page 127
... wishes to fo hofpitable a friend , we may yet suppose , he was directed here by this principle of equity , ---- and that , in reflecting in what manner he fhould requite his bene- factress , he had confidered , that to one of her ...
... wishes to fo hofpitable a friend , we may yet suppose , he was directed here by this principle of equity , ---- and that , in reflecting in what manner he fhould requite his bene- factress , he had confidered , that to one of her ...
Page 130
... wish no more , but a fufficient competency of those things , which are requifite to the real ufes and occafions of life , fuitable to the way I have been taught to expect from use and education . " - But recollect how fel- dom it ever ...
... wish no more , but a fufficient competency of those things , which are requifite to the real ufes and occafions of life , fuitable to the way I have been taught to expect from use and education . " - But recollect how fel- dom it ever ...
Page 131
... wishes could carry them in this afcent , -do you ob- ferve they live the better , the longer , the merrier , or that they fleep the founder in their beds , for having twice as much as they wanted , or well know how to dif pofe of ? Of ...
... wishes could carry them in this afcent , -do you ob- ferve they live the better , the longer , the merrier , or that they fleep the founder in their beds , for having twice as much as they wanted , or well know how to dif pofe of ? Of ...
Page 165
... wish that they are to fit down in happiness , and feel them- felves fo at cafe at all points , as to defire nothing better , and nothing more . I own there are inftances of fome , who feem to pass through the world , as if all their ...
... wish that they are to fit down in happiness , and feel them- felves fo at cafe at all points , as to defire nothing better , and nothing more . I own there are inftances of fome , who feem to pass through the world , as if all their ...
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