William Hart
Published: 2018-01-26
Total Pages: 152
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Excerpt from Fugitive Pieces: In Prose and Verse, Consisting of Tales, &C.; Moral and Sentimental O! Listen, listen, to her seraphic dictates, incline to her, wise and holy precepts, then will you learn to be happy, for they teach virtue, and the practice of virtue is the most perfect attainment of earthly, yet perennial, felicity. Ah! Who is so degenerately base, he would not invoke thine influence over his heart, did he know the pleasurable joys it, brings, 'did he imagine its intrinsic worth. For, however noble man is in thought, his actions are never more aptly modulated to the tone of reason, than when harmonized by humanity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.