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... Roscommon . I cannot but observe , to the honour of our country , that the good qualities amongst us seem to be natural , and the ill ones more accidental , and such as would be easily changed by the examples of princes , and by the ...
... Roscommon . I cannot but observe , to the honour of our country , that the good qualities amongst us seem to be natural , and the ill ones more accidental , and such as would be easily changed by the examples of princes , and by the ...
Page 131
... Roscommon . CCCCLIII . Taxing is an easy business . Any projector can con- trive new impositions ; any bungler can add to the old . But is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions , than the patience of those who ...
... Roscommon . CCCCLIII . Taxing is an easy business . Any projector can con- trive new impositions ; any bungler can add to the old . But is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions , than the patience of those who ...
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... Roscommon on the French . DV . The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whipp'd them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherish'd by our virtues ...
... Roscommon on the French . DV . The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill together ; our virtues would be proud , if our faults whipp'd them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherish'd by our virtues ...
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... Roscommon . Solid love , whose root is virtue , can no more die , than virtue itself . - Erasmus . DCXXXII . The profession of a story - teller sits but awkardly upon young people , and is downright weakness in old men . When our wit is ...
... Roscommon . Solid love , whose root is virtue , can no more die , than virtue itself . - Erasmus . DCXXXII . The profession of a story - teller sits but awkardly upon young people , and is downright weakness in old men . When our wit is ...
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... Roscommon . Common Fame is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect still reserved to it ; though she telleth many an untruth , she often hits right , and most espe- cially when she speaketh ill of men . Saville . DCXCVII ...
... Roscommon . Common Fame is the only liar that deserveth to have some respect still reserved to it ; though she telleth many an untruth , she often hits right , and most espe- cially when she speaketh ill of men . Saville . DCXCVII ...
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