The British Essayists volume 18
The British Essayists volume 18
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" That life is short we are all convinced, and yet suffer not that conviction to repress our projects or limit our expectations; that life is miserable we all feel, and yet we believe that the time is near when we shall feel it no longer. But to hope happiness and immortality is equally vain. Our state may in- deed be more or less imbittered as our duration may be more or less contracted; yet the utmost felicity which we can ever attain will be little better than alle- viation of misery, and we... shall always feel more pain from our wants than pleasure from our enjoyments. The incident which I am going to relate will show that, to destroy the effect of all our success, it is not necessary that any signal calamity should fall upon us, that we should be harassed by implacable perse- cution, or excruciated by irremediable pains; the brightest hours of prosperity have their clouds, and the stream of life, if it is not ruffled by obstructions, will grow putrid by stagnation.
" My father, resolving not to imitate the folly of his ancestors, who had hitherto left the younger sons incumbrances on the eldest, destined me to a lucra- tive profession ; and [, being careful to lose no op- portunity of improvement, was, at the usual time in which young men enter the world, well qualified for the exercise of the business which I had chosen.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
" That life is short we are all convinced, and yet suffer not that conviction to repress our projects or limit our expectations; that life is miserable we all feel, and yet we believe that the time is near when we shall feel it no longer. But to hope happiness and immortality is equally vain. Our state may in- deed be more or less imbittered as our duration may be more or less contracted; yet the utmost felicity which we can ever attain will be little better than alle- viation of misery, and we... shall always feel more pain from our wants than pleasure from our enjoyments. The incident which I am going to relate will show that, to destroy the effect of all our success, it is not necessary that any signal calamity should fall upon us, that we should be harassed by implacable perse- cution, or excruciated by irremediable pains; the brightest hours of prosperity have their clouds, and the stream of life, if it is not ruffled by obstructions, will grow putrid by stagnation.
" My father, resolving not to imitate the folly of his ancestors, who had hitherto left the younger sons incumbrances on the eldest, destined me to a lucra- tive profession ; and [, being careful to lose no op- portunity of improvement, was, at the usual time in which young men enter the world, well qualified for the exercise of the business which I had chosen.
What to read after The British Essayists volume 18?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by James Ferguson to read onlineMoreLess
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