The Spectator, Volume 8William Durell and Company, 1810 - English literature |
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... mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being who has given us every thing we already possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope ...
... mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being who has given us every thing we already possess, and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope ...
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... mind than gratitude . It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently re- warded by the performance . It is not like the prac- tice of many other virtues , difficult , and painful , but attended with ...
... mind than gratitude . It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction , that the duty is sufficiently re- warded by the performance . It is not like the prac- tice of many other virtues , difficult , and painful , but attended with ...
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... mind of a grateful man , it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being who has given us every thing we already possess , and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope ...
... mind of a grateful man , it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude ; on this beneficent Being who has given us every thing we already possess , and from whom we expect every thing we yet hope ...
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... themselves from them , but just as they are what contribute to their amusement , or the improvement of the mind . I lay one night last VOL . VIII . 2 week at Richmond ; and being restless not out of No. 454 . THE SPECTATOR .
... themselves from them , but just as they are what contribute to their amusement , or the improvement of the mind . I lay one night last VOL . VIII . 2 week at Richmond ; and being restless not out of No. 454 . THE SPECTATOR .
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... mind of any but of one . a little too studious ; for I said to myself , with a kind of pun in thought , What nonsense is all the hurry of this world to those who are above it ? In these , or not much wiser thoughts , I had like to have ...
... mind of any but of one . a little too studious ; for I said to myself , with a kind of pun in thought , What nonsense is all the hurry of this world to those who are above it ? In these , or not much wiser thoughts , I had like to have ...
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