Essays, Moral, Economical and PoliticalJ. Sharpe, 1822 - 206 pages |
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Page 7
... observation could select from the spectacle of the passing scene : in them we behold imagination and knowledge equally successful in their exertions ; this as the contributor of truths , and that of opening her affluent wardrobe for ...
... observation could select from the spectacle of the passing scene : in them we behold imagination and knowledge equally successful in their exertions ; this as the contributor of truths , and that of opening her affluent wardrobe for ...
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... observe , how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of death make ; for they appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a compliment : " Livia , conjugii nostri memor , vive et vale . " Tiberius ...
... observe , how little alteration in good spirits the approaches of death make ; for they appear to be the same men till the last instant . Augustus Cæsar died in a compliment : " Livia , conjugii nostri memor , vive et vale . " Tiberius ...
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... observation of a wise father , and no less in- genuously confessed , that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences were com- monly interested therein themselves for their own ends . IV . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a kind of ...
... observation of a wise father , and no less in- genuously confessed , that those which held and persuaded pressure of consciences were com- monly interested therein themselves for their own ends . IV . OF REVENGE . REVENGE is a kind of ...
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... observation , or without hold to be taken , what he is ; the second dissimulation in the negative , when a man lets fall signs and arguments , that he is not that he is ; and the third , simulation in the affirmative , when a man ...
... observation , or without hold to be taken , what he is ; the second dissimulation in the negative , when a man lets fall signs and arguments , that he is not that he is ; and the third , simulation in the affirmative , when a man ...
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... observe , that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves what a life they lead , chanting a " quanta patimur ; " not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy ...
... observe , that the more deep and sober sort of politic persons , in their greatness , are ever bemoaning themselves what a life they lead , chanting a " quanta patimur ; " not that they feel it so , but only to abate the edge of envy ...
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