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... object , and give way to every fenfation that might foothe or divert him . He liftened to every echo , he mounted every hill for a fresh prof- pect , he turned afide to every cafcade , and pleafed himself with tracing the course of a ...
... object , and give way to every fenfation that might foothe or divert him . He liftened to every echo , he mounted every hill for a fresh prof- pect , he turned afide to every cafcade , and pleafed himself with tracing the course of a ...
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... we in time lofe the happinefs of innocence , and folace our difquiet with fenfual gratifications . By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention , and quit the only adequate object of rational defire . We quit ( 11 )
... we in time lofe the happinefs of innocence , and folace our difquiet with fenfual gratifications . By degrees we let fall the remembrance of our original intention , and quit the only adequate object of rational defire . We quit ( 11 )
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... object of rational defire . We entangle ourselves in bufinefs , immerge ourselves in luxury , and rove through the labyrinths of inconftancy , till the darknefs of old age begins to invade us , and disease and anxiety obftruct our way ...
... object of rational defire . We entangle ourselves in bufinefs , immerge ourselves in luxury , and rove through the labyrinths of inconftancy , till the darknefs of old age begins to invade us , and disease and anxiety obftruct our way ...
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... objects . If the wheel of life , which rolls thus filently along , paffed on through undistinguishable uniformity , we fhould never mark its approaches to the end of the course . If one hour were like another ; if the paffage of the fun ...
... objects . If the wheel of life , which rolls thus filently along , paffed on through undistinguishable uniformity , we fhould never mark its approaches to the end of the course . If one hour were like another ; if the paffage of the fun ...
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... objects , and the thoughtleffnefs with which he floats along the ftream of time , I funk into a flum- ber amidst my meditations , and , on a fudden , found my ears filled with the tumults of labour , the fhouts of alacrity , the shrieks ...
... objects , and the thoughtleffnefs with which he floats along the ftream of time , I funk into a flum- ber amidst my meditations , and , on a fudden , found my ears filled with the tumults of labour , the fhouts of alacrity , the shrieks ...
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