Elegant Extracts, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages from the Best English Authors and Translations: Principally Designed for the Use of Young Persons, Volume 2S. Walker, 1826 - English letters |
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Page 142
... virtues , was in the main dan- were the first to implore his forgive- gerous to his people and dishonour - ness , and ... virtue that he never said a foolish thing , nor was a strict adherence to facts and ever did a wise one : a censure ...
... virtues , was in the main dan- were the first to implore his forgive- gerous to his people and dishonour - ness , and ... virtue that he never said a foolish thing , nor was a strict adherence to facts and ever did a wise one : a censure ...
Page 163
... virtue its le - age . Two instances cannot be de- gitimate honours would not prevent nied : when the army was disbanded ; their being lavished , in future , on and again , when he stood , like Leo- any worthless and ambitious favour ...
... virtue its le - age . Two instances cannot be de- gitimate honours would not prevent nied : when the army was disbanded ; their being lavished , in future , on and again , when he stood , like Leo- any worthless and ambitious favour ...
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... virtue . An applica- principle of nature directs us as tion to any study , that tends neither strongly , and more generally as well directly nor indirectly to make us as more early , to indulge our own cu- better men , and better ...
... virtue . An applica- principle of nature directs us as tion to any study , that tends neither strongly , and more generally as well directly nor indirectly to make us as more early , to indulge our own cu- better men , and better ...
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