The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners, and Literature. In a Series of Essays |
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... Virtue is effen- tial to individual happiness . There is no transport A equal to that of the performance of virtue . All.
... Virtue is effen- tial to individual happiness . There is no transport A equal to that of the performance of virtue . All.
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... virtue . All other happiness , which is not connected with felf - approba- tion and fympathy , is unfatisfactory and frigid . To make a man virtuous we must make him wife . All virtue is a compromise between oppofite motives and ...
... virtue . All other happiness , which is not connected with felf - approba- tion and fympathy , is unfatisfactory and frigid . To make a man virtuous we must make him wife . All virtue is a compromise between oppofite motives and ...
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... virtues . There are few men who had not rather you should say of them , that they are knaves , than that they are fools . But folly and wisdom are to a great degree relative terms . He who paffles for the oracle of an obfcure club ...
... virtues . There are few men who had not rather you should say of them , that they are knaves , than that they are fools . But folly and wisdom are to a great degree relative terms . He who paffles for the oracle of an obfcure club ...
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... virtues without discrimination , are no virtues . The weak man neither knows whom he ought to approve nor whom to disapprove . Dazzled by the luftre of uncommon excellence , he is frequently one of the first to defame it . He wishes me ...
... virtues without discrimination , are no virtues . The weak man neither knows whom he ought to approve nor whom to disapprove . Dazzled by the luftre of uncommon excellence , he is frequently one of the first to defame it . He wishes me ...
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... virtue , by means of which two events are bound to each other . If any man were to tell me that , if I pull the trigger of my gun , a fwift and beautiful horfe will immediately appear starting from the mouth of the tube ; I can only ...
... virtue , by means of which two events are bound to each other . If any man were to tell me that , if I pull the trigger of my gun , a fwift and beautiful horfe will immediately appear starting from the mouth of the tube ; I can only ...
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