Lacon; Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think, Volume 1Sherman, 1824 |
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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 so far from presuming that the world would give them cré- dit for talent , on the score of their aberrations and their extravagances , all that they dared hope or expect ...
... passions , would have been so much higher , by subduing them ; and so far from presuming that the world would give them cré- dit for talent , on the score of their aberrations and their extravagances , all that they dared hope or expect ...
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... passion full of pa- radox , a madness full of method ; for although the miser is the most mercenary of all beings , yet he serves the worst master more faithfully than some Christians do the best , and will take nothing for it . He ...
... passion full of pa- radox , a madness full of method ; for although the miser is the most mercenary of all beings , yet he serves the worst master more faithfully than some Christians do the best , and will take nothing for it . He ...
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... passions , as they suc- cessively 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 in- separable from ...
... passions , as they suc- cessively 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 in- separable from ...
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... passions , jealousy is that which ex- acts 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 ex- acts 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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