The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 16
... pain , Peri- ander in glory , honour , and riches , Dinomachus and Coliphon in a mixture of virtue and delight . Can there be more ingenious folly ? Why did not some of the philosophers place the happiness of man in not writing , since ...
... pain , Peri- ander in glory , honour , and riches , Dinomachus and Coliphon in a mixture of virtue and delight . Can there be more ingenious folly ? Why did not some of the philosophers place the happiness of man in not writing , since ...
Page 17
... pains in our childhood ? what peregrinations in our riper years , what reading , what writing , what meditating , to ac- quire a little knowledge ? The worst is , that we owe all our informa- tion to the brutes , to whom Nature has been ...
... pains in our childhood ? what peregrinations in our riper years , what reading , what writing , what meditating , to ac- quire a little knowledge ? The worst is , that we owe all our informa- tion to the brutes , to whom Nature has been ...
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... pains to explain it . Any person may become acquainted with it by looking over the Abbe's grammar , and he may convince himself of the success it has been attended with , by going to the house of the institution , either on public days ...
... pains to explain it . Any person may become acquainted with it by looking over the Abbe's grammar , and he may convince himself of the success it has been attended with , by going to the house of the institution , either on public days ...
Page 80
... painful illness , in the 46th year of his age , Mr. JAMES SIMMONS of this city . Scarcely have we recorded an ... Pain , and Chance , and Death expire . " By an extensive circle of relatives and friends , the deceased was well ...
... painful illness , in the 46th year of his age , Mr. JAMES SIMMONS of this city . Scarcely have we recorded an ... Pain , and Chance , and Death expire . " By an extensive circle of relatives and friends , the deceased was well ...
Page 90
... painful and pleasing vicis- situdes of mortality shall be absorbed and forgotten in the full fruition of celestial and eternal bliss . By the adoption and cultivation of these characters , therefore , you will promote and establish your ...
... painful and pleasing vicis- situdes of mortality shall be absorbed and forgotten in the full fruition of celestial and eternal bliss . By the adoption and cultivation of these characters , therefore , you will promote and establish your ...
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