Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 páginas |
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... vice , can never be obsequious or assuming in a wrong place , but will frequently emulate men in rank be- low him , and pity those above him . - Tatler . Those who without knowing us , think evil of us , do us no harm ; it is not us ...
... vice , can never be obsequious or assuming in a wrong place , but will frequently emulate men in rank be- low him , and pity those above him . - Tatler . Those who without knowing us , think evil of us , do us no harm ; it is not us ...
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... vice . " Plutarch's Lives . DISPUTE . - Dont use thyself to dispute against thine own judgment , to show thy wit , lest it pre- pare thee to be too indifferent about what is right- nor against another man to vex him , or for mere trial ...
... vice . " Plutarch's Lives . DISPUTE . - Dont use thyself to dispute against thine own judgment , to show thy wit , lest it pre- pare thee to be too indifferent about what is right- nor against another man to vex him , or for mere trial ...
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... Vice prevails , Celestial Justice balances her scales , With eye unbiass'd all the scene surveys , With hand impartial ev'ry crime she weighs ; Oft close pursuing at his trembling heels , The man of blood her awful presence feels ; Oft ...
... Vice prevails , Celestial Justice balances her scales , With eye unbiass'd all the scene surveys , With hand impartial ev'ry crime she weighs ; Oft close pursuing at his trembling heels , The man of blood her awful presence feels ; Oft ...
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... vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory ; of a constitution so treacherously good , that it never bends until it breaks ; or of a me- mory that recollects the pleasures of getting drunk , but forgets the pains of getting sober ...
... vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory ; of a constitution so treacherously good , that it never bends until it breaks ; or of a me- mory that recollects the pleasures of getting drunk , but forgets the pains of getting sober ...
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... VICE . No vassalage so ignoble , no servitude so miserable , as that of vice ; mines and galleys , mills and dungeons , are words of ease , to the service of sin ; therefore , the bringing sinners to repentance , is so noble , so ...
... VICE . No vassalage so ignoble , no servitude so miserable , as that of vice ; mines and galleys , mills and dungeons , are words of ease , to the service of sin ; therefore , the bringing sinners to repentance , is so noble , so ...
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