Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both HemispheresLippincott & Company, 1866 - 564 páginas |
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... means of storing the youthful mind with a fund of high and ennobling thoughts , such as have shaped the destinies of the great and good who have preceded them . ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRUTH ; OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD viii PREFACE .
... means of storing the youthful mind with a fund of high and ennobling thoughts , such as have shaped the destinies of the great and good who have preceded them . ILLUSTRATIONS OF TRUTH ; OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD viii PREFACE .
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... mean boast of what their fathers were , While they themselves are fools effeminate , The scorn of all who know the worth of mind And virtue . Ancestry . — Daniel Webster . THERE may be , and there often is , indeed a regard for an ...
... mean boast of what their fathers were , While they themselves are fools effeminate , The scorn of all who know the worth of mind And virtue . Ancestry . — Daniel Webster . THERE may be , and there often is , indeed a regard for an ...
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... means advise you to throw away your Time , in ran- sacking , like a dull Antiquarian , the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times . Let blockheads read , what blockheads wrote . Antiquity . Tacitus . -1 ALL those ...
... means advise you to throw away your Time , in ran- sacking , like a dull Antiquarian , the minute and unimportant parts of remote and fabulous times . Let blockheads read , what blockheads wrote . Antiquity . Tacitus . -1 ALL those ...
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... mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye , Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues . Beauty . Moore . -- WHILE she , who sang so gently to the lute Her dream of home , steals ...
... mean , Needs not the painted flourish of your praise ; Beauty is bought by judgment of the eye , Not utter'd by base sale of chapmen's tongues . Beauty . Moore . -- WHILE she , who sang so gently to the lute Her dream of home , steals ...
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... Means as the Agricul- turist his manure , which if he spread over too large a superficies produces no crop , if over too small a surface , exuberates in rank- ness and in weeds . Benevolence . — Kant . BENEFICENCE is a duty . He who ...
... Means as the Agricul- turist his manure , which if he spread over too large a superficies produces no crop , if over too small a surface , exuberates in rank- ness and in weeds . Benevolence . — Kant . BENEFICENCE is a duty . He who ...
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