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" THERE are two kinds of immortality; that which the soul really enjoys after this life, and that imaginary existence by which men live in their fame and reputation. The best and greatest actions have proceeded from the prospect of the one or the other... "
The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers - Page 299
by British essayists - 1803
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Swift: The Mystery of His Life and Love

James Hay - Authors, Irish - 1891 - 390 pages
...wasps and hornets break through. THE POWER OF A FUTURE LIFE. There are two kinds of immortality—that which the soul really enjoys after this life, and...proceeded from the prospect of the one or the other of these.—Vol. vp 166. THE IMPERMANENCE OF LIFE. . There is nothing constant in this world but inconstancy.—Vol....
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The Tatler, Volume 2

George Atherton Aitken - English essays - 1898 - 446 pages
...Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo. VIRG., J£.n. vi. 660. From my own Apartment, October 14. There are two kinds of immortality : that which the...of these ; but my design is to treat only of those who have chiefly proposed to themselves the latter as the principal reward of their labours. It was...
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The Tatler, Volume 2

George Atherton Aitken - English essays - 1898 - 439 pages
...artes, Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo. VIRG., JEn. vi. 660. From my own Apartment, October 14. There are two kinds of immortality : that which the...of these ; but my design is to treat only of those who have chiefly proposed to themselves the latter as the principal reward of their labours. It was...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 9

David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - American essays - 1900 - 466 pages
...extend; And those who knew that bounty to commend. — Dryden. FROM MY OWN APARTMENT, October i4th. THERE are two kinds of immortality; that which the...of these; but my design is to treat only of those who have chiefly proposed to themselves the latter, as the principal reward of their labors. It was...
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Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization ..., Volume 9

David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 452 pages
...extend; And those who knew that bounty to commend. — Dryden. FROM MY OWN APARTMENT, October 14th. THERE are two kinds of immortality; that which the...of these; but my design is to treat only of those who have chiefly proposed to themselves the latter, as the principal reward of their labors. It was...
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Essays of Joseph Addison, Volume 1

Joseph Addison - 1915 - 464 pages
...excoluere per artes, Quique sui memores alias fecere merendo. VIRG. From my own Apartment, October 14. THERE are two kinds of immortality ; that which the...of these ; but my design is to treat only of those who have chiefly proposed to themselves the latter as the principal reward of their labours. It was...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660-1780

John Richetti - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 974 pages
...men and women in society, Addison looks more deeply into human nature. His first full essay begins, 'There are two kinds of Immortality; that which the...Existence by which Men live in their Fame and Reputation.' Addison goes on from here to write a version of the Temple of Fame, an allegory that appears in Ovid's...
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The Works of Joseph Addison: The Tatler. The Guardian

Joseph Addison - 1854 - 534 pages
...perartes, Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo. — YIRG. From my own Apartment, October 14. TiiEfiE are two kinds of immortality; that which the soul...of these ; but my design is to treat only of those who have chiefly proposed to themselves the latter as the principal reward of their labours. It was...
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