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Page 79
... virtues and faults . He desires I will send him the minutes I made at the time of that , as he justly calls it ... virtue . He was no cold moralist ; it was obedience , meekness , and universal benevolence , whose absence from his heart ...
... virtues and faults . He desires I will send him the minutes I made at the time of that , as he justly calls it ... virtue . He was no cold moralist ; it was obedience , meekness , and universal benevolence , whose absence from his heart ...
Page 125
... virtues . It is the duty of those who possess such virtues to exert them there , that the influence of excellent example may not be lost upon mankind , through the inevitable disgust it must receive from voluntary seclusion , and avowed ...
... virtues . It is the duty of those who possess such virtues to exert them there , that the influence of excellent example may not be lost upon mankind , through the inevitable disgust it must receive from voluntary seclusion , and avowed ...
Page 133
... virtues , form a bulwark about him against the vices of youth . The fortune which he will inherit from you , as the ... virtue than the thirst of riches ? Never has experience shewn that happiness was the result of wealth , beyond the ...
... virtues , form a bulwark about him against the vices of youth . The fortune which he will inherit from you , as the ... virtue than the thirst of riches ? Never has experience shewn that happiness was the result of wealth , beyond the ...
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