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Can a rational creature be happy thnt is diiaffeded to the fupreme good, the only fource of that kind of happinefs which is adapted to a rational na - nire?
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Thus, you fee, I have no very bril - liant hopes of what/call happinefs, as I am not pofleffed of an ample fortune y that is, an income fufficient to gratify my own wifhes, and the defires alio of. my female companion.
The Disinterested Marriage, Or, The History of Mr. Frankland. 1774
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We were foon after abreaft of that Lufitania, the happinefs and fecundity of which is confecrated with fo much eloquence, and fo pleafingly, by the elegant and fenfible author of Telemachus.
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Sir, the honor of admimftration coilfifts in pro - moting the peace, the profperity and happinefs of the people.
Congressional Reporter, Containing the Public Documents, and the Debates [in Congress] 1812
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Was he made only to be deceived, with the profpe6l of happinefs, which can never be realized?
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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Once it was in thy poyver to enjoy happinefs, but the time is gone by.
Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797
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Is it not then wifely ordered of God, that we fliould find fo little happinefs, and meet mih fo many difappointments, troubles, and even vex - ations, from the world, that fo vre might be led to reft in God only?
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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No, it is not fuch a heaven, it is not fuch happinefs, that they delire; and yet this is the only heaven, the only happinefs, prepared for rational and immortal fouls.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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The foul of man, we have obferved, is full of reftlefs defires; it flies from object to obje6l, in purfuit of fatisfa8ion, comfort, or happinefs.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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Let us now particularly confider, that there is an objeQ, on which the foul may reft, or in the enjoyment of which it may find fatisfadlion and happinefs, equal to its higheft expectation.
Twenty four sermons on various useful subjects Williams, Nehemiah, 1748-1796 1797
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