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Page 35
... soul , and at the same time attend to all the lawful interests of the present world . back on the past , and provides for the future . PREPARATION NECESSARY FOR OLD AGE . He looks A joyless and dreary season will old age prove , if we ...
... soul , and at the same time attend to all the lawful interests of the present world . back on the past , and provides for the future . PREPARATION NECESSARY FOR OLD AGE . He looks A joyless and dreary season will old age prove , if we ...
Page 38
... soul to Him aspire , Whom none e'er sought with vain desire , Nor lov'd in sad despair ; There , to his gracious will divine , My dearest , fondest hope resign , And all my tenderest care . Then peace shall heal this wounded breast ...
... soul to Him aspire , Whom none e'er sought with vain desire , Nor lov'd in sad despair ; There , to his gracious will divine , My dearest , fondest hope resign , And all my tenderest care . Then peace shall heal this wounded breast ...
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... soul ; the latter , by filling young and tender minds with more knowledge than they can either retain or arrange properly , is apt to make them superficial and inattentive , or , what is worse , to strain , and consequently impair the ...
... soul ; the latter , by filling young and tender minds with more knowledge than they can either retain or arrange properly , is apt to make them superficial and inattentive , or , what is worse , to strain , and consequently impair the ...
Page 44
... soul for every virtuous impression while malevolent passions debase the understanding , harden the heart , and make a man disagreeable to others and a tor- ment to himself . A second duty of this class is compassion , or that sympathy ...
... soul for every virtuous impression while malevolent passions debase the understanding , harden the heart , and make a man disagreeable to others and a tor- ment to himself . A second duty of this class is compassion , or that sympathy ...
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... soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star , And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride , by Envy's frown , And Poverty's unconquerable bar , In life's low vale remote has pined alone , Then dropp'd ...
... soul sublime Has felt the influence of malignant star , And waged with Fortune an eternal war ; Check'd by the scoff of Pride , by Envy's frown , And Poverty's unconquerable bar , In life's low vale remote has pined alone , Then dropp'd ...
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