 If you are struck by the appearance of any promised pleasure, guard yourself against being hurried away by it; but let the affair wait your leisure, and procure yourself some delay. Then bring to your mind both points of time : that in which you shall...  Essays, Moral and Literary - Page 97de Vicesimus Knox - 1783Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
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...by Silence, and Blufhing, and a forbidding Look, fhow yourfelf to be difpleafed by fuch Talk. XXXIV. If you are ftruck by the Appearance of any promifed...Gratification, take heed, that its enticing, and agreeable, and attraclive Force may not fubdue you: but fet in Oppofition to this, how much better it is, to be confcious... | |
 | Epictetus - 1807 - 800 pages
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 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 324 pages
...yourself against being hurried away by it; but let the affair wait your leisure, and procure yourself some delay. Then bring to your mind both points of time ; that in which you shall enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself, after you have enjoyed... | |
 | 664 pages
...against being hurried away by it ; but let the affair wait your leisure, and procure yourself some delay. Then bring to your mind both points of time ; that in which you shall enjoy the pleasure, and that in.which you will repent and reproach yourself, after you have enjoyed... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 598 pages
...against being hurried away by it ; but let the affair wait your leisure, and procure yourself some delay. Then bring to your mind both points of time ; that in which you shall enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself, after you have enjoyed... | |
 | Epictetus - 1865 - 468 pages
...yourself against being bewildered by it ; but let the affair wait your leisure, and procure yourself some delay. Then bring to your mind both points of time ; that in which you shall enjoy the pleasure, and that in which you will repent and reproach yourself, after you have enjoyed... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1821 - 664 pages
...against being hurried away by it ; but let the afl'air wait your leisure, and procure yourself some delay. Then bring to your mind both points of time ; that in which you shall enjoy the pleasure, and that in.which yon will repent and reproach yourself, after you have enjoyed... | |
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