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"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
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"Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment."
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
"Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing."
"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."
"Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics."
"The 'relative' delights the mind (manoranjan), the 'real' delights the Self (the soul, atmaranjan)."
"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."
"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."
"Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight."
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"Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune."
"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."
"Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is."
"During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home."
"In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River."
"We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves."
"Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!"
"On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two."
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