The Port Folio, Volume 2Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1809 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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Page 6
... Thoughts : Each night we die , Each morn are born anew : each day a life ! And shall we kill each day ? If trifling kills , Sure vice must butcher . O what heaps of slain Cry out for vengeance on us ! Time destroy'd Is suicide , where ...
... Thoughts : Each night we die , Each morn are born anew : each day a life ! And shall we kill each day ? If trifling kills , Sure vice must butcher . O what heaps of slain Cry out for vengeance on us ! Time destroy'd Is suicide , where ...
Page 8
... thoughts which rise and pass in succession in the mind : by emotions , all exertions of the mind , which arise from the operation of the passions . Words are the signs of the one , tones of the other . And there is not an exertion of ...
... thoughts which rise and pass in succession in the mind : by emotions , all exertions of the mind , which arise from the operation of the passions . Words are the signs of the one , tones of the other . And there is not an exertion of ...
Page 9
... thoughts than in words . Next to him , habited in smooth and ample garments , on whose fore- head is delineated a candid and prudent soul , free from the slavery of adulation , you perceive Plutarch , so versed in politics and military ...
... thoughts than in words . Next to him , habited in smooth and ample garments , on whose fore- head is delineated a candid and prudent soul , free from the slavery of adulation , you perceive Plutarch , so versed in politics and military ...
Page 12
... thought to be full of judgment and of sound maxims , but , called on this occasion into action ; they were con- founded by the contrariety of opinions , and the variety of resolutions that were suggested without being able to form any ...
... thought to be full of judgment and of sound maxims , but , called on this occasion into action ; they were con- founded by the contrariety of opinions , and the variety of resolutions that were suggested without being able to form any ...
Page 18
... thought they were the causes of the complaints and indispositions of the citizens , who , by indulging in this studious gluttony were pale and thin , and subject to headachs and indigestions . Hence Marcus Varro took me to the hall ...
... thought they were the causes of the complaints and indispositions of the citizens , who , by indulging in this studious gluttony were pale and thin , and subject to headachs and indigestions . Hence Marcus Varro took me to the hall ...
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