The British Essayists: SpectatorJames Ferguson J. Richardson and Company, 1823 |
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... proper and genuine motives to these , and the like great actions , would only influence vir- tuous minds ; there would be but small improve- ments in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all ...
... proper and genuine motives to these , and the like great actions , would only influence vir- tuous minds ; there would be but small improve- ments in the world , were there not some common principle of action working equally with all ...
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... proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at rest : but fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures , that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it , nor any organ in the body to relish it : an object of desire , placed ...
... proper sense , and for a while set the appetite at rest : but fame is a good so wholly foreign to our natures , that we have no faculty in the soul adapted to it , nor any organ in the body to relish it : an object of desire , placed ...
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... proper instruments , both of acquiring fame , and of procuring this happiness , they would nevertheless fail in the attainment of this last end , if they proceeded from a desire of the first . These three propositions are self - evident ...
... proper instruments , both of acquiring fame , and of procuring this happiness , they would nevertheless fail in the attainment of this last end , if they proceeded from a desire of the first . These three propositions are self - evident ...
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... proper object and a fit conjuncture of cir- cumstances , for the due exercise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and mu- nificence . The patience and fortitude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
... proper object and a fit conjuncture of cir- cumstances , for the due exercise of it . A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and mu- nificence . The patience and fortitude of a martyr or confessor lie concealed in the ...
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... proper judge of our perfections , who does not guess at the sincerity of our intentions from the goodness of our actions , but weighs the goodness of our actions by the sincerity of our intentions . But further , it is impossible for ...
... proper judge of our perfections , who does not guess at the sincerity of our intentions from the goodness of our actions , but weighs the goodness of our actions by the sincerity of our intentions . But further , it is impossible for ...
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