Sentimental Beauties From the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected With a View to Refine the Taste ...
Sentimental Beauties From the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected With a View to Refine the Taste ...
Hugh Blair
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Awake to the puriuits of men of virtue and honour. Break looie from that magic circle, within which you are at pre- fent held. Rejed the poifoned cup which the enchantrefs Pleafure holds up to your lips. DrjLW afide the veil which fhe throws over your eyes. You will then fee other objedls than you now be- hold. You will fee a dark abyfs openiafj below your feet. You will fee virtue and tcmpci.uicc marking out the road, which condufts to true felicity. You will be enabled to difcorn, th.\t the w...orld is enjoyed to advantage, by none but fuch as follow thofe divine guides j and who eon- l66 BEAUTIES OF BLAIR. fider pleafure as the feafoning, but not as the bu« finefsj of life. VANITY OF THE WORLD. THE fefhion of the world paffeth away. Its pomp and its pleafures, its riches, magnl** ficence, and glory, are no more than a tranfient fhew. Every thing that we here enjoy, changes, decays, and comes to an end. All floats on the furface of a river, which, with fwift current, is running towards a boundlefs ocean.
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