Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think. From the 8th London EdLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823 - 267 pages |
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Page vi
... opinion ; from the tribunal of the public there is no appeal , and it is fit that it should be so , otherwise we should not only have rivers of ink expended in bad writing , but oceans more in defending it ; for he that writes in a bad ...
... opinion ; from the tribunal of the public there is no appeal , and it is fit that it should be so , otherwise we should not only have rivers of ink expended in bad writing , but oceans more in defending it ; for he that writes in a bad ...
Page x
... opinions by the authority of great names ; for I have always considered rather what is said , than who says it ; and the consequence of the argument , rather than the consequence of him who delivers it . It is sufficiently humiliating ...
... opinions by the authority of great names ; for I have always considered rather what is said , than who says it ; and the consequence of the argument , rather than the consequence of him who delivers it . It is sufficiently humiliating ...
Page xiii
... opinions on politics , or any other subject , will attract much attention . The approbation of a few discerning friends , is all the reward I wish for my labours ; and the four lines which form the com- mencement of my Poem of ...
... opinions on politics , or any other subject , will attract much attention . The approbation of a few discerning friends , is all the reward I wish for my labours ; and the four lines which form the com- mencement of my Poem of ...
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... opinion , and is as fickle as her food . She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those , who are of all beings the most subject to change . But virtue is uniform and fixed , because she looks for ...
... opinion , and is as fickle as her food . She builds a lofty structure on the sandy foundation of the esteem of those , who are of all beings the most subject to change . But virtue is uniform and fixed , because she looks for ...
Page 62
... opinions , and embrace new ones , at the expence of worldly profit and advantage , there may be some who will doubt of our discernment , but there will be none who will impeach our sincerity . He that adopts new opinions at the expence ...
... opinions , and embrace new ones , at the expence of worldly profit and advantage , there may be some who will doubt of our discernment , but there will be none who will impeach our sincerity . He that adopts new opinions at the expence ...
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