Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry Selected for the Impropvement of Young Persons Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in Prose, Volume 1J. Johnson, 1801 |
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Page 90
... honour . The fenfe of honour is of fo fine and de- licate a nature , that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble , or in fuch as have been cultivated by great examples , or a refined education . This eflay ...
... honour . The fenfe of honour is of fo fine and de- licate a nature , that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble , or in fuch as have been cultivated by great examples , or a refined education . This eflay ...
Page 91
... honour . Timogeneswas a lively instance of one ac- tuated by falfe honour . Timogenes would fmile at a man's juft who ridiculed his Ma- ker , and at the fame time run a man through the body that spoke ill of his friend . Ti- mogenes ...
... honour . Timogeneswas a lively instance of one ac- tuated by falfe honour . Timogenes would fmile at a man's juft who ridiculed his Ma- ker , and at the fame time run a man through the body that spoke ill of his friend . Ti- mogenes ...
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... HONOUR . Nobility refideth not but in the foul ; nor is there true honour except in virtue . The favour of princes may be bought by vice ; rank and titles may be purchafed for money : but thefe are not true honour . Crimes cannot exalt ...
... HONOUR . Nobility refideth not but in the foul ; nor is there true honour except in virtue . The favour of princes may be bought by vice ; rank and titles may be purchafed for money : but thefe are not true honour . Crimes cannot exalt ...
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Tevion of Mr Allegory Spectator | 1 |
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