Elegant Extracts: Being a Copious Selection of Instructive, Moral, and Entertaining Passages, from the Most Eminent British Poets, Nide 6J. Sharpe, 1810 |
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... action , when it is misunderstood , I shall con- sider honour with respect to three sorts of men . First of all , with regard to those who have a right notion of it . Secondly , with regard to those who have a mistaken notion of it ...
... action , when it is misunderstood , I shall con- sider honour with respect to three sorts of men . First of all , with regard to those who have a right notion of it . Secondly , with regard to those who have a mistaken notion of it ...
Sivu 164
... action . Young men are subtle arguers ; the cloak of honour covers all their faults , as that of passion all their ... actions . Every person insensibly fixes upon some degree of refinement in his discourse , some measure of thought ...
... action . Young men are subtle arguers ; the cloak of honour covers all their faults , as that of passion all their ... actions . Every person insensibly fixes upon some degree of refinement in his discourse , some measure of thought ...
Sivu 195
... actions will not bear too strict an inquiry . It is allowed , that the cause of most actions , good or bad , may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self love of some men inclines them to please others ; and the self - love ...
... actions will not bear too strict an inquiry . It is allowed , that the cause of most actions , good or bad , may be resolved into the love of ourselves ; but the self love of some men inclines them to please others ; and the self - love ...
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BOOK XI | 1 |
Marriage compared with single Life Bishop Taylor | 10 |
The same subject | 16 |
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affections agreeable beauty better cern cheerfulness common consider conversation Coriolanus Crito danger death debt desire doth endeavour enemy evil father faults fear folly fool fortune gamester give hand happiness hath hear heart Heaven honest honour human humour keep kind king labour laudanum laws learning less liberty lies long live look looking-glass lords spiritual man's mankind marriage master men's mind ministers of religion mother nature nerally never noble observed pain passions peace perhaps persons pleasing pleasure Poor Richard says praise prosperity racter reason religion revenge rich Rome Scythian seldom sorrow soul speak spirit tell temper tender thee thing thou thought tion true truth vanity Veturia vice virtue virtuous Volsci Volscian Volumnia wife wine wisdom wise woman women word young youth