Shorter Novels: Eighteenth CenturyDent, 1971 - 278 pages |
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Page 10
... never have attempted to surmount ! " Struck with this reflection , he sat down to muse ; and remem- bered , that since he first resolved to escape from his confinement , the sun had passed twice over him in his annual course . He now ...
... never have attempted to surmount ! " Struck with this reflection , he sat down to muse ; and remem- bered , that since he first resolved to escape from his confinement , the sun had passed twice over him in his annual course . He now ...
Page 36
... never thinks never can be wise . Perpetual levity must end in ignor- ance ; and intemperance , though it may fire the spirits for an hour , will make life short or miserable . Let us consider that youth is of no long duration , and that ...
... never thinks never can be wise . Perpetual levity must end in ignor- ance ; and intemperance , though it may fire the spirits for an hour , will make life short or miserable . Let us consider that youth is of no long duration , and that ...
Page 66
... never return . When the clouds of sorrow gather over us , we see nothing beyond them , nor can imagine how they will be dispelled ; yet a new day succeeded to the night , and sorrow is never long without a dawn of ease . But they who ...
... never return . When the clouds of sorrow gather over us , we see nothing beyond them , nor can imagine how they will be dispelled ; yet a new day succeeded to the night , and sorrow is never long without a dawn of ease . But they who ...
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