A Series of Genuine Letters Between Henry and Frances, Band 2For W. Johnston, 1757 |
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... most continued , uniform , and conftant Means . Love and Friendship are the higheft Enjoyments of Mortals : They are likewife in the Series of Virtue . Would it not be Caprice in Provi- dence , dence , to give us new Objects , and ...
... most continued , uniform , and conftant Means . Love and Friendship are the higheft Enjoyments of Mortals : They are likewife in the Series of Virtue . Would it not be Caprice in Provi- dence , dence , to give us new Objects , and ...
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... most labo- rious Life to the melancholy Hours I fometimes pafs ; not for Want of Employment , but Refo- lution to employ myself . I am , however , far from being fatisfied with my prefent Condition ; for I , almoft hourly , B 2 find ...
... most labo- rious Life to the melancholy Hours I fometimes pafs ; not for Want of Employment , but Refo- lution to employ myself . I am , however , far from being fatisfied with my prefent Condition ; for I , almoft hourly , B 2 find ...
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... most in need of all the friendly , amufing , and focial Helps , to aid them through . The other Vices have Nature on their Side , or Al- lurements and Temptations , to excuse them ; but Morofenefs is contrary to Nature , ( who diffufes ...
... most in need of all the friendly , amufing , and focial Helps , to aid them through . The other Vices have Nature on their Side , or Al- lurements and Temptations , to excuse them ; but Morofenefs is contrary to Nature , ( who diffufes ...
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... most perfect in Geometry , feems to bear the nearest Analogy to the Perfon decyphered by it . O ! may our Loves , our Joys , our Days , end , like the Circle , as they have begun ! ( for I keep no Record of Time before our firft ...
... most perfect in Geometry , feems to bear the nearest Analogy to the Perfon decyphered by it . O ! may our Loves , our Joys , our Days , end , like the Circle , as they have begun ! ( for I keep no Record of Time before our firft ...
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... most charming of thy Sex ! Nor will I doubt , that my fharing would enhance the Pleafures of Retirement ; for Solitude's the Nutfe of Love , as well as Contemplation ; and I am very fure , were we to live but a few Months in a calm ...
... most charming of thy Sex ! Nor will I doubt , that my fharing would enhance the Pleafures of Retirement ; for Solitude's the Nutfe of Love , as well as Contemplation ; and I am very fure , were we to live but a few Months in a calm ...
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Abfence Adieu affure againſt almoſt Amuſement anſwer becauſe beft Belvidere beſt Bleffing Blifs charming Chriftian Confequence confider Converfation Courſe Dear FANNY dear Harry dearest defire Diſappointment divine Effay Epiftle eternal Exercife Expreffion fafe faid fame fecond feems fenfible fhall fhew fhort fhould fince fincerely firft firſt fome fometimes fpeak FRANCES to HENRY Friendſhip ftill fuch fuffer fufficient fure give Happineſs happy Heart higheſt himſelf hope human Inftance itſelf juft Juftice juſt laft laft Letter laſt leaft leaſt lefs Love Mifery Mind moft moſt muft muſt myſelf Nature never Number obferve Occafion ourſelves Paffage Paffion pafs Pain Perfon perhaps Philofophy pleafed pleaſed Pleaſure Pliny Poft prefent Puniſhments Reaſon reft Regard render ſay Senfe Senſe Sentiments ſhall Soul ſpeak Spirits Subject ſuch Tenderneſs thee thefe themſelves theſe Thing thofe thoſe thou Thoughts Underſtanding uneafy Uſe Virtue Weakneſs wifh Wiſh worfe write your's yourſelf
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Seite 100 - Let not this weak, unknowing hand Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation round the land On each I judge thy foe. If I am right, thy grace impart, Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, oh teach my heart To find that better way...
Seite 21 - When you have proved that the three angles of every triangle are equal to two right angles...
Seite 101 - I am, not wholly fo, Since quick'ned by thy breath ; Oh lead me wherefo'er I go, Thro' this day's life or death. This day, be bread and peace my lot: All elfe beneath the fun, Thou know'ft if beft beftow'd or not, And let thy will be done. To thee, whofe temple is all fpace, Whofe altar, earth, fea, fkies ! One chorus let all being raife ! All nature's incenfe rife I THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL, ODE.
Seite 99 - What conscience dictates to be done, Or warns me not to do, This teach me more than hell to shun, That more than heav'n pursue. What blessings thy free bounty gives Let me not cast away ; For God is paid when man receives, T
Seite 213 - Close-twisted with the fibres of the heart ! Which, broken, break them ; and drain off the soul Of human joy ; and make it pain to live — And is it then to live ? When such friends part, 'Tis the survivor dies — My heart ! no more.
Seite 101 - Thro' this day's Life or Death. This day, be Bread and Peace my Lot : All elfe beneath the Sun, Thou know'ft if beft beftow'd or not, And let Thy Will be done. To thee, whofe Temple is all Space, Whofe Altar, Earth, Sea, Skies ! One Chorus let all Being raife ! All Nature's Incenfe rife ! MORAL ESSAYS, IN FOUR EPISTLES TO Several Perfons.
Seite 9 - Lord, to number my days, that I may apply my heart unto wifdom ; ever to remember my laft end, that I may not dare to fin againft thee.
Seite 99 - Jehovah, Jove, or Lord ! Thou Great Firft Caufe, leaft underftood ; Who all my Senfe confin'd To know but this, that Thou art Good, And that myfelf am blind ; Yet gave me, in this dark Eftate, To fee the Good from Ill; And, binding Nature faft in Fate, Left free the Human Will...
Seite 168 - Nemesis visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generation...