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... once , and , were it inclin- ed to it , has no power to make resistance , but surrenders itself to all the tender emotions of pity and deep concern . So that when one considers the friendly part of our nature without looking farther ...
... once , and , were it inclin- ed to it , has no power to make resistance , but surrenders itself to all the tender emotions of pity and deep concern . So that when one considers the friendly part of our nature without looking farther ...
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... once takes it into his head that he adds to the number ? What other man speaks so often and so vehemently against the vice of pride , sets the weakness of it in a more odious light , or is more hurt with it in another , than the proud ...
... once takes it into his head that he adds to the number ? What other man speaks so often and so vehemently against the vice of pride , sets the weakness of it in a more odious light , or is more hurt with it in another , than the proud ...
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... once , and that was by an Irishman . — Hodgson's Letters from America . 88. Catherine de Medicis . - When the infamous Catherine of Medicis had persuaded Charles the IX . of l'rance to massacre all the Protestants in the kingdom , that ...
... once , and that was by an Irishman . — Hodgson's Letters from America . 88. Catherine de Medicis . - When the infamous Catherine of Medicis had persuaded Charles the IX . of l'rance to massacre all the Protestants in the kingdom , that ...
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... it may take hold of the great ones first , lest we renew the practice once in Athens , where they banged none but little thieves , and the great thieves pronounced sentence . Verbam sat sapienti : I am more afraid of those 28.
... it may take hold of the great ones first , lest we renew the practice once in Athens , where they banged none but little thieves , and the great thieves pronounced sentence . Verbam sat sapienti : I am more afraid of those 28.
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... once the most abject wretches in the world . They are proud amidst poverty , and indolent though starving in a country which will almost cultivate itself . Nothing can equal the serenity of the air ; it is certainly the softest and the ...
... once the most abject wretches in the world . They are proud amidst poverty , and indolent though starving in a country which will almost cultivate itself . Nothing can equal the serenity of the air ; it is certainly the softest and the ...
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Страница 182 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Страница 287 - Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out ; it is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
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Страница 242 - A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horseshoe nail.
Страница 232 - Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together.
Страница 143 - This advice, thus beat into my head, has frequently been of use to me; and I often think of it, when I see pride mortified, and misfortunes brought upon people by their carrying their heads too high.
Страница 226 - True happiness is of a retired nature, and an enemy to pomp and noise : it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.