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Pagina 87
... virtue if stage performances were read , not acted ; made rather our companions in the cabinet 1 than on the theatre . While we are readers , every moral senti- ment strikes us in all its beauty , but the love scenes are frigid , tawdry ...
... virtue if stage performances were read , not acted ; made rather our companions in the cabinet 1 than on the theatre . While we are readers , every moral senti- ment strikes us in all its beauty , but the love scenes are frigid , tawdry ...
Pagina 183
... virtue which reason prescribes , or society should expect . Our duty to our Maker , to each other , and to ourselves , are fully answered if we give them what we owe them . Thus justice , properly speaking , is the only virtue , and all ...
... virtue which reason prescribes , or society should expect . Our duty to our Maker , to each other , and to ourselves , are fully answered if we give them what we owe them . Thus justice , properly speaking , is the only virtue , and all ...
Pagina 216
... virtue , as well among pagans as Christians : there have been even heroes who have practised it . However , we must acknowledge , that it is too modest a virtue , or , if you will , too obscure a one to be essential to heroism ; few ...
... virtue , as well among pagans as Christians : there have been even heroes who have practised it . However , we must acknowledge , that it is too modest a virtue , or , if you will , too obscure a one to be essential to heroism ; few ...
Inhoudsopgave
CHAPTER | 3 |
III | 21 |
Of the present state of polite learning in Italy | 27 |
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