The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 2John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... virtue is ho- noured and promoted , in monarchies and kingdoms it in- curs suspicion . - Machiavel . DVIII . Titles and Nobility . — It is surprising what an influence titles shall have upon the mind , even though these titles be of our ...
... virtue is ho- noured and promoted , in monarchies and kingdoms it in- curs suspicion . - Machiavel . DVIII . Titles and Nobility . — It is surprising what an influence titles shall have upon the mind , even though these titles be of our ...
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... virtue , so as certainly is it the sole cause of all that is base , horrid , and shameful in human nature . We may say the same of conscience . It can be no criterion of moral rectitude , even when it is right . Conscience is only ...
... virtue , so as certainly is it the sole cause of all that is base , horrid , and shameful in human nature . We may say the same of conscience . It can be no criterion of moral rectitude , even when it is right . Conscience is only ...
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... virtue and vice . - Swift . DXXXIII . Men seldom reason.- . . - Man is not a reasoning animal ; the best you can predicate of him is , that he is an animal capable of reason , and this , too , we take upon old tradi- tion ; for it has ...
... virtue and vice . - Swift . DXXXIII . Men seldom reason.- . . - Man is not a reasoning animal ; the best you can predicate of him is , that he is an animal capable of reason , and this , too , we take upon old tradi- tion ; for it has ...
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... virtue . Now , in so far as you approach tempta . tion to a man , you do him an injury ; and , if he is over- come , you share his guilt . - Johnson . DXXXIX . Chastity . How large a portion of chastity is sent out of the world by ...
... virtue . Now , in so far as you approach tempta . tion to a man , you do him an injury ; and , if he is over- come , you share his guilt . - Johnson . DXXXIX . Chastity . How large a portion of chastity is sent out of the world by ...
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... virtue from vice , and good from evil , they would admit of no variation , and be for ever taken in the same sense . But as they are used to denote opinions concerning the most incomprehensible subjects , no wonder that their meaning ...
... virtue from vice , and good from evil , they would admit of no variation , and be for ever taken in the same sense . But as they are used to denote opinions concerning the most incomprehensible subjects , no wonder that their meaning ...
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