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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ... - Page 240
edited by - 1859
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A second selection from the papers of Addison in the Spectator and Guardian ...

Joseph Addison - 1828 - 432 pages
...est. — Publ. Syr. Frag. , i • j it An agreeable companion upon the road in as good as a coach. A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches...the censures of the world. If the last interferes wi$i the former, it ought to be entirely neglected ; bat otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction...
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Laconics: Or, The Best Words of the Best Authors, Volume 1

John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...sun and fresh air, and that such a one as never sends them to the apothecary. — South. MCCCXXXVIII. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...the public. A man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...sun and fresh air, and that such a one as never sends them to the apothecary. — South. Mcccxxxvm. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...the public. A man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of...
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The Spectator: With Notes and a General Index, Volumes 1-2

1836 - 932 pages
...in via pro rehiculo est. — PttbL S]fr. An agreeable companion upon the road it as good ua coach. 'H+ the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of...
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Spectator (The)

1836 - 1118 pages
...Syr. Prag. An agreeable companion upon the road is as good as a coach. A MAN'S first care should bo to avoid the reproaches of his own heart ; his next,...the public. A man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of...
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The Spectator, no. 1-314

Joseph Addison - 1837 - 480 pages
...pro vehículo i'sl.—Puhl. Syr. frag. An agreeable companion upon the road is ai good aa a coach. A MAN'S first care should be to avoid the reproaches...the public. A man is more sure of his conduct, when the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of...
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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...via pro vebiculo eat. — PubL 8yr. Frag' An agreeable companion upon the road ii u good « a coach. y of all dull people in general; but when dulness...the age, by reason that the stupidity of their heads the verdict which he passes upon his own behaviour is thus warranted and confirmed by the opinion of...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...contains many touches of his delicate humour, as well as a quaint view of bygone manners : — s " A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...be entirely neglected ; but otherwise there cannot he a greater satisfaction to an honest mind than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded...
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Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book ...

James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...speaking ; and the less necessary are, by this means, sunk into a comparative obscurity. EXAMPLES. A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches...own heart' ; his next, to escape the censures of the world1. It will be difficult for her to retain the decorous and dignified semblance of love for him',...
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Sir Roger de Coverley

Joseph Addison - 1852 - 264 pages
...jucundus in via pro vehiculo est. FUEL. A MAN'S first Care should be to avoid the Re•*"*• proaches of his own Heart ; his next, to escape the Censures...Satisfaction to an honest Mind, than to see those Appropriations which it gives itself, seconded by the Applauses of the Publick : A Man is more sure...
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