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... honour- able occupations of youth . Whatever useful or engaging endowments we possess , virtue is requisite , in order to their shining with proper lustre . Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood ...
... honour- able occupations of youth . Whatever useful or engaging endowments we possess , virtue is requisite , in order to their shining with proper lustre . Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood ...
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... Damocles , how miserable he was in the midst of all his treasures ; and in possession of all the honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . CICERO . SECTION II . # re I Change of external condition 32 Pas The English Reader .
... Damocles , how miserable he was in the midst of all his treasures ; and in possession of all the honours and enjoyments which royalty could bestow . CICERO . SECTION II . # re I Change of external condition 32 Pas The English Reader .
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... honours which he possessed were next to roy- al , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts , and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this ...
... honours which he possessed were next to roy- al , his pride was every day fed with that servile homage , which is peculiar to Asiatic courts , and all the servants of the king prostrated themselves before him . In the midst of this ...
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... honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack , seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride , has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
... honour , swells into a mo- mentous object ; and the slightest attack , seems to threaten immediate ruin . 4 But after passion or pride , has subsided , we look around in vain for the mighty mischiefs we dreaded . The fabric , which our ...
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... honour , than where religion and morality are concerned . In times of prevailing licentiousness , to maintain unblemished virtue , and uncorrupted integrity ; in a public or a private cause , to stand firm by what is fair and just ...
... honour , than where religion and morality are concerned . In times of prevailing licentiousness , to maintain unblemished virtue , and uncorrupted integrity ; in a public or a private cause , to stand firm by what is fair and just ...
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The English Reader: Or Pieces in Prose and Verse, From the Best Writers ... Lindley Murray No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 91 - And now behold I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befal me there, save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying, that bonds and afflictions abide me.