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Pagina 18
... which I find in all my thoughts and reflections , I am happier than any single person can be , with all the wealth , strength , beauty , and success , that can be conferred upon a mortal , if he only relishes a proportion of these ...
... which I find in all my thoughts and reflections , I am happier than any single person can be , with all the wealth , strength , beauty , and success , that can be conferred upon a mortal , if he only relishes a proportion of these ...
Pagina 19
... after having struggled through all the oppositions of prejudice and envy , breaking out with lustre , and shining forth in all the splendor of success , I close my book , and am an happy man for a whole evening .
... after having struggled through all the oppositions of prejudice and envy , breaking out with lustre , and shining forth in all the splendor of success , I close my book , and am an happy man for a whole evening .
Pagina 56
I was forced to comfort him with the common reflection upon such occasions , that men of the greatest merit are not always men of the greatest success , and that persons of his character must not expect to be as happy as fools .
I was forced to comfort him with the common reflection upon such occasions , that men of the greatest merit are not always men of the greatest success , and that persons of his character must not expect to be as happy as fools .
Pagina 75
a “ to you , not without some confusion , that I have thought on nothing else for these two long years , " but the happy life we should lead together , and the means I should use to make myself still more « dearer to him .
a “ to you , not without some confusion , that I have thought on nothing else for these two long years , " but the happy life we should lead together , and the means I should use to make myself still more « dearer to him .
Pagina 84
... yet I must confess , she appears much greater in that she receives them with such a giorious humility , and shews she has no farther regard for them , than as they arise from these great events , which have made her subjects happy .
... yet I must confess , she appears much greater in that she receives them with such a giorious humility , and shews she has no farther regard for them , than as they arise from these great events , which have made her subjects happy .
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