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... Pleasure . What greater Mo- tive can be urged to diffwade us from finning than the Hope of fuch a Hap- piness as doth fo infinitely out - bid all that Vice can proffer us , and is weigh- ty enough to preponderate all its Temptations ...
... Pleasure . What greater Mo- tive can be urged to diffwade us from finning than the Hope of fuch a Hap- piness as doth fo infinitely out - bid all that Vice can proffer us , and is weigh- ty enough to preponderate all its Temptations ...
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... Pleasures of the Body , and hardned by Pati- ence against the Pain and Displeasures of it ; that hach so fubdued her ... Pleasure , and expofe all the Peace and Tranquillity of our Minds to the Mercy of every Trifle , fo that we shall ...
... Pleasures of the Body , and hardned by Pati- ence against the Pain and Displeasures of it ; that hach so fubdued her ... Pleasure , and expofe all the Peace and Tranquillity of our Minds to the Mercy of every Trifle , fo that we shall ...
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... Pleasure and Re- creation to thofe that are in Health ; even fo Perfons of weak and pufilla- nimous Spirits are easily offended ; their Minds are so tender and effemi- nate , that they cannot bear the leaft Air of Trouble without ...
... Pleasure and Re- creation to thofe that are in Health ; even fo Perfons of weak and pufilla- nimous Spirits are easily offended ; their Minds are so tender and effemi- nate , that they cannot bear the leaft Air of Trouble without ...
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... Pleasures as we ; they relish their Morfels with as great a Guft , and enjoy their De- lights with as quick a Senfe , as the greatest Epicures in the World.Befides which , their Harmony is not mingled with the fad Difcords of a wounded ...
... Pleasures as we ; they relish their Morfels with as great a Guft , and enjoy their De- lights with as quick a Senfe , as the greatest Epicures in the World.Befides which , their Harmony is not mingled with the fad Difcords of a wounded ...
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... Pleasure that lieth before him , incourageth him to march on with Joy and Ala- crity through this howling Defert of Sorrow and Mifery , and maketh the Wilderness to feem a Paradife to him ; and at worst , all the ill Ufage that he meets ...
... Pleasure that lieth before him , incourageth him to march on with Joy and Ala- crity through this howling Defert of Sorrow and Mifery , and maketh the Wilderness to feem a Paradife to him ; and at worst , all the ill Ufage that he meets ...
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