Lacon: or, Many things in few words, Volume 2Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme&Brown, 1822 |
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... pretended passion for one woman , who has no true love for another , so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues , can best assume the appearance of them all . III . TRUE friendship is like sound health , the IN FEW WORDS . 9.
... pretended passion for one woman , who has no true love for another , so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues , can best assume the appearance of them all . III . TRUE friendship is like sound health , the IN FEW WORDS . 9.
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... two most important things ; it increases the energies of virtue and diminishes the excesses of vice ; it makes the best of us more good , and the worst of us less bad . › XIII . NO improvement that takes place in either of 12 MANY THINGS.
... two most important things ; it increases the energies of virtue and diminishes the excesses of vice ; it makes the best of us more good , and the worst of us less bad . › XIII . NO improvement that takes place in either of 12 MANY THINGS.
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... the apparent war of the elements in the natural , are the very means by which wisdom and truth are ultimately established in the one , and peace and harmony in the other . XLIX . GREAT examples to virtue , or to vice 24 MANY THINGS.
... the apparent war of the elements in the natural , are the very means by which wisdom and truth are ultimately established in the one , and peace and harmony in the other . XLIX . GREAT examples to virtue , or to vice 24 MANY THINGS.
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Charles Caleb Colton. XLIX . GREAT examples to virtue , or to vice , are not so productive of imitation as might at ... virtues in others . Idleness is the grand pacific ocean of life , and in that stagnant abyss , the most salutary ...
Charles Caleb Colton. XLIX . GREAT examples to virtue , or to vice , are not so productive of imitation as might at ... virtues in others . Idleness is the grand pacific ocean of life , and in that stagnant abyss , the most salutary ...
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... virtue has no other reward , because they have heard that she is her own !番 LVIII . I IN all civilized communities , there must of necessity exist a small portion of society , who are in a great measure independent of public opinion ...
... virtue has no other reward , because they have heard that she is her own !番 LVIII . I IN all civilized communities , there must of necessity exist a small portion of society , who are in a great measure independent of public opinion ...
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