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Pagina 15 - Look round her board, cast thine eyes upon her guests, and observe those who have been allured by her smiles, who have listened to her temptations. " Are they not meagre ? are they not sickly ? are they not spiritless ? " Their short hours of jollity and riot are followed by...
Pagina 14 - Yet if thou sufferest not the allurements of fortune to rob thee of justice, or temperance, or charity, or modesty, even riches themselves shall not make thee unhappy. But hence shalt thou learn, that the cup of felicity, pure and unmixed, is by no means a draught for mortal man.
Pagina 22 - As the whirlwind, in its fury, teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature ; or as an earthquake, in its convulsions, overturneth whole cities ; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him ; danger and destruction wait on his hand.
Pagina 26 - The whiteness of her bosom transcendeth the lily; her smile is more delicious than a garden of roses. The innocence of her eye is like that of the turtle ; simplicity and truth dwell in her heart. The kisses of her mouth are sweeter than honey; the perfumes of Arabia breathe from her lips. Shut not thy bosom...
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Pagina 43 - O son of humanity ! who honoured thee with reason ; endued thee with speech ; and placed thee in society, to receive and confer reciprocal helps and mutual obligations. Thy food, thy clothing, thy convenience of habitation ; thy protection from the injuries, thy enjoyment of the comforts and the pleasures of life : all these thou owest to the assistance of others, and couldst not enjoy but in the bands of society. It is thy duty, therefore, to be a friend to...