The British Essayists, Volume 10Alexander Chalmers J. M'Creery, Printer, 1817 - English essays |
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... proper : matrimony and the clergy are the topics of people of little wit , and no understanding . I own to you , I have learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me with . She is a discreet , ingenious , pleasant , pious woman ; I wish ...
... proper : matrimony and the clergy are the topics of people of little wit , and no understanding . I own to you , I have learned of the vicar's wife all you tax me with . She is a discreet , ingenious , pleasant , pious woman ; I wish ...
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... proper and genuine motives to these , and the like great actions , would only influence vir- tuous minds ; there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all men ...
... proper and genuine motives to these , and the like great actions , would only influence vir- tuous minds ; there would be but small improvements in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all men ...
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... proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at rest : but fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures , that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it , nor any organ in the body to VOL . X / There relish it an object of ...
... proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at rest : but fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures , that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it , nor any organ in the body to VOL . X / There relish it an object of ...
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... proper instruments , both of acquiring fame , and of procuring this happiness , they would nevertheless fail in the attainment of this last end , if they proceeded from a desire of the first . These three propositions are self - evident ...
... proper instruments , both of acquiring fame , and of procuring this happiness , they would nevertheless fail in the attainment of this last end , if they proceeded from a desire of the first . These three propositions are self - evident ...
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... proper object and a fit conjuncture of cir- cumstances , for the due exercise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and mu- nificence . The patience and fortitude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
... proper object and a fit conjuncture of cir- cumstances , for the due exercise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and mu- nificence . The patience and fortitude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
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The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical Alexander Chalmers No preview available - 2016 |
The British Essayists: With Prefaces, Historical and Biographical Alexander Chalmers No preview available - 2016 |
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