resolved to leave me entirely without excuse
It would have made a Stoic smile to have seen me and my little family sit down to dinner. There was my majesty the prince and lord of the whole island
sliding gently through the world, and sensibly tasting the sweets of living, without the bitter
nor enraged with the passion of envy, or the secret burning lust of ambition for great things
subjected to so many distempers
between the mean and the great
might judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing—that this was the state of life which all other people envied
a life of ease and pleasure
To make short this sad part of my story, we went the way of all sailors; the punch was made and I was made half drunk with it: and in that one night’s wickedness I drowned all my repentance, all my reflections upon my past conduct, all my resolutions for the future.
generally go, and designed me for the law; but I would be satisfi
