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Page 40
... negligent , and from virtue the virtuous only can expect re- gard . C 916 It is said by Florus of Catiline , who died in the midst of slaughtered enemies , that his death had been illustrious , had it been suffered for his country . Of ...
... negligent , and from virtue the virtuous only can expect re- gard . C 916 It is said by Florus of Catiline , who died in the midst of slaughtered enemies , that his death had been illustrious , had it been suffered for his country . Of ...
Page 49
... negligence is sur- prised , timidity overborne , and credulity amused , requires either great latitude of converse and long acquaintance with business , or uncommon activity of vigilance , and acuteness of penetration . When , therefore ...
... negligence is sur- prised , timidity overborne , and credulity amused , requires either great latitude of converse and long acquaintance with business , or uncommon activity of vigilance , and acuteness of penetration . When , therefore ...
Page 91
... negligence . The Macedonian conqueror , when he was once invited to hear a man that sung like a nightingale , replied with contempt , " that he had heard the nightingale herself ; " and the same treatment must every man expect , whose ...
... negligence . The Macedonian conqueror , when he was once invited to hear a man that sung like a nightingale , replied with contempt , " that he had heard the nightingale herself ; " and the same treatment must every man expect , whose ...
Page 107
... negligently lost part of our vowels , and that the silent e , which our ancestors added to most of our monosyllables , was once vocal . By this detruncation of our syllables , our language is overstocked with consonants , and it is more ...
... negligently lost part of our vowels , and that the silent e , which our ancestors added to most of our monosyllables , was once vocal . By this detruncation of our syllables , our language is overstocked with consonants , and it is more ...
Page 139
... negligence which sometimes steals upon the most vigilant cau- tion , and that fallibility to which the condition of na- ture has subjected every human understanding ; but from a thousand extrinsick and accidental causes , from every ...
... negligence which sometimes steals upon the most vigilant cau- tion , and that fallibility to which the condition of na- ture has subjected every human understanding ; but from a thousand extrinsick and accidental causes , from every ...
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