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The Remedy for Duelling: A Sermon, Delivered Before the Presbytery of Long ... - Page 26
by Lyman Beecher - 1809 - 48 pages
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 822 pages
...The great moralist has said, — and truly said, Vice ts a monster of euch frightful mien, That to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar will» her face, We first emlure, then pity, then embrace. But AI r. B. is not content to leave the...
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An enlarged edition of Murray's abridged English grammar, by dr. [J.A.] Giles

Lindley Murray - 1839 - 232 pages
...know'st if best bestow'd or not, And let thy will be done. Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. If nothing more than purpose in thy power, Thy purpose firm, is equal to the...
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The guide of the Hebrew student, an epitome of sacred history, with easy ...

Hermann Hedwig Bernard - 1839 - 208 pages
...1? ' лот т» ^з лт " " па i» 'fs)çin па Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, "We first endure, then pity, then embrace. POPE. Tnrp. ]3 n?$1 mqa 1"^TS & "riri ^"? nc ^jly nnn incnnf) ]5 nan»'? i3...
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New Critical Approaches to the Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway

Jackson J. Benson - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 532 pages
...quote from Alexander Pope's An Essay on Man: it reads Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. But where th' Extreme of Vice, was ne'er agreed. 4 Following Philip Young's...
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Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude

Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone - Intention - 1991 - 324 pages
...select the right kind of friends and associates. Remember: Vice is a monster of such awful mien That to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet, seen too oft, familiar with his face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Another force with which every human being has...
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Principle Centered Leadership

Stephen R. Covey - Business & Economics - 1992 - 340 pages
...Alexander Pope's well-known statement concerning vice: Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. Our discussion ended with a decision to try to limit ourselves to about one...
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Elsie's Children

Martha Finley - Juvenile Fiction - 1994 - 342 pages
...talent for such an undertaking. CHAPTER TWENTY-FIRST. w Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." — POPE. THE winter and spring passed very quietly at Ion. At Roselands...
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The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal, Volume 6

Law - 1872 - 974 pages
...had before condemned. In the language of Pope :— " Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, " As to be hated needs but to be seen ; " Yet, seen too oft, familiar with her face, " We first endure, then pity, then embrace." ("Hear," and a laugh.) He intended this measure as a supplement to Lord O'Hagan'a...
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Reaching Out Without Dumbing Down: A Theology of Worship for This Urgent Time

Marva J. Dawn - Religion - 1995 - 332 pages
...Confident, p. 95. Vice is a monsrer of so frighrful mien As to be hared needs but to be seen, Yer seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. This process can often be witnessed in the dumbing down of worship music or preaching. Christians begin...
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The Underworld Sewer: A Prostitute Reflects on Life in the Trade, 1871-1909

Josie Washburn - Social Science - 1997 - 376 pages
...character are greater in proportion. "Evil begets evil." "Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen ; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace." The Hold-Up For twelve years I was a matron of a public house in Lincoln,...
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