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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... passions are the powerful and disturbing forces , the greater or the less prevalence of which gives individuality to character . But we must not only express clearly but think deeply , nor can we concede to Buffon that style alone is ...
... passions are the powerful and disturbing forces , the greater or the less prevalence of which gives individuality to character . But we must not only express clearly but think deeply , nor can we concede to Buffon that style alone is ...
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... passions , would have been so much higher , by subduing them ; and that so far from pre- suming that the world would give them credit for talent , on the score of their aberrations and their extravagancies , all that they dared hope or ...
... passions , would have been so much higher , by subduing them ; and that so far from pre- suming that the world would give them credit for talent , on the score of their aberrations and their extravagancies , all that they dared hope or ...
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... passions , as they successively decay . But unlike other tombs it is enlarged by repletion , and strengthened by age . This latter paradox so peculiar to this passion , must be ascribed to that love of power so inseparable from the ...
... passions , as they successively decay . But unlike other tombs it is enlarged by repletion , and strengthened by age . This latter paradox so peculiar to this passion , must be ascribed to that love of power so inseparable from the ...
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... passions , jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service , and pays the bitterest wages . Its service is - to watch the success of our enemy , -its wages - to be sure of it . XLVIII . PEDANTRY prides herself on being wrong by rules ...
... passions , jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service , and pays the bitterest wages . Its service is - to watch the success of our enemy , -its wages - to be sure of it . XLVIII . PEDANTRY prides herself on being wrong by rules ...
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... passion of the Athenian mob , who were more pleased to hear their superiors abused , than themselves commended . * The great Howard , on the contrary , was so fully engaged in works of active benevolence , that , unlike Baxter , whose ...
... passion of the Athenian mob , who were more pleased to hear their superiors abused , than themselves commended . * The great Howard , on the contrary , was so fully engaged in works of active benevolence , that , unlike Baxter , whose ...
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