The Spectator, Volumen8William Durell and Company, 1810 |
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... virtues , difficult , and painful , but attended with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any recom- pense laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it for the natural ...
... virtues , difficult , and painful , but attended with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any recom- pense laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it for the natural ...
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... virtues are choaked by the multitude of weeds which are suffered to grow among them ; how excellent parts are often starved and useless by being planted in a wrong soil ; and how very seldom do these moral seeds produce the noble fruits ...
... virtues are choaked by the multitude of weeds which are suffered to grow among them ; how excellent parts are often starved and useless by being planted in a wrong soil ; and how very seldom do these moral seeds produce the noble fruits ...
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... virtue , the other betrays it . True modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is repugnant to the rules of right reason ; false modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is opposite to the humor of the company . True modesty avoids every ...
... virtue , the other betrays it . True modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is repugnant to the rules of right reason ; false modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is opposite to the humor of the company . True modesty avoids every ...
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... virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false modesty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples un- der this head . I shall only ...
... virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false modesty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will suggest to him many instances and examples un- der this head . I shall only ...
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... virtue while reform the taste of a profane age , you and per- suade us to be entertained with divine poems , while we are distinguished by so many thousand humors , and split into so many different sects and parties ; yet persons of ...
... virtue while reform the taste of a profane age , you and per- suade us to be entertained with divine poems , while we are distinguished by so many thousand humors , and split into so many different sects and parties ; yet persons of ...
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