The Pocket Lacon: Comprising Nearly One Thousand Extracts from the Best Authors, Том 1John Taylor Lea & Blanchard, 1839 |
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... virtue and to happiness ; which dwell not in the extremes of poverty or riches . As throughout the various regions of the earth , advan- tages and inconveniences are distributed with a more im- partial hand than we , on a transitory ...
... virtue and to happiness ; which dwell not in the extremes of poverty or riches . As throughout the various regions of the earth , advan- tages and inconveniences are distributed with a more im- partial hand than we , on a transitory ...
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... virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he only coveted gold upon its altar . - E . L. Bulwer . XXVII . Prejudices . — The world , with all its boasting , is ...
... virtue from little motives , loses the motive as he increases the love , and at last worships the Deity , where before he only coveted gold upon its altar . - E . L. Bulwer . XXVII . Prejudices . — The world , with all its boasting , is ...
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... virtue all the advantage which can be derived " from first possession . " ́Parr's Discourse on Education . XXXI . Rules for Correcting Credulous and Contradictory Dispositions . The prejudice of credulity may in some measure be cured ...
... virtue all the advantage which can be derived " from first possession . " ́Parr's Discourse on Education . XXXI . Rules for Correcting Credulous and Contradictory Dispositions . The prejudice of credulity may in some measure be cured ...
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... virtues or his vices - shows us how he came first to take a ' right or a wrong turn - the prospects which invited him to aspire to higher degrees of glory , or the delusions which misled him from his virtue and his peace ; the circum ...
... virtues or his vices - shows us how he came first to take a ' right or a wrong turn - the prospects which invited him to aspire to higher degrees of glory , or the delusions which misled him from his virtue and his peace ; the circum ...
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... virtues or vices be established in habits . This may account for the risks they run without apprehension , or the celerity with which they recover from circumstances of shame and humiliation . It is commonly observed , that the vices of ...
... virtues or vices be established in habits . This may account for the risks they run without apprehension , or the celerity with which they recover from circumstances of shame and humiliation . It is commonly observed , that the vices of ...
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