The Classick Pages: Classical Reading of Eighteenth-century AmericansMeyer Reinhold Pennsylvania State University, 1975 - 231 pages |
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Page 70
... pleasures : virtuous pleasure is the purest source of happiness ; and vicious pleasure a gulf of infamy and disgrace . Avoid public reproaches and suspicions , though they be ill- grounded ; for the generality of men know no criterion ...
... pleasures : virtuous pleasure is the purest source of happiness ; and vicious pleasure a gulf of infamy and disgrace . Avoid public reproaches and suspicions , though they be ill- grounded ; for the generality of men know no criterion ...
Page 195
... Pleasure in the very Midst of Danger , and exposed themselves to Danger only to supply the Expence of their Pleasure , should see their Liberty buried in the fields of Pharsalia ? Whereas so long as that Liberty , so dear to the first ...
... Pleasure in the very Midst of Danger , and exposed themselves to Danger only to supply the Expence of their Pleasure , should see their Liberty buried in the fields of Pharsalia ? Whereas so long as that Liberty , so dear to the first ...
Page 202
... pleasure to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being ; and placed their happiness consequently in the secure enjoyment of a pleasurable life : esteeming virtue on no other account , than as it was a handmaid to pleasure ...
... pleasure to be the chief good of man ; death the extinction of his being ; and placed their happiness consequently in the secure enjoyment of a pleasurable life : esteeming virtue on no other account , than as it was a handmaid to pleasure ...
Contents
The Cult of Antiquity in America | 1 |
THESE GREAT MASTERS | 29 |
Florus | 35 |
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