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Pagina 177
... reason. Your speculation nay turn very naturally upon the force the superior part of mankind may have upon the spirits of such as, like this watchman, may be very near the standard of geese, and you may add to this practical observation ...
... reason. Your speculation nay turn very naturally upon the force the superior part of mankind may have upon the spirits of such as, like this watchman, may be very near the standard of geese, and you may add to this practical observation ...
Pagina 185
... reason ; with which, however, Mr. Cowley is so offended, that writing to one of his friends, " You," says he, " tell me that you do not know whether Persius be a good poet or no, because you cannot under- Stand him ; for which very reason ...
... reason ; with which, however, Mr. Cowley is so offended, that writing to one of his friends, " You," says he, " tell me that you do not know whether Persius be a good poet or no, because you cannot under- Stand him ; for which very reason ...
Pagina 191
... reason, I cannot think of any other that ought to banish this happy temper from a virtuous mind. Pain and sickness, shame and reproach, poverty and old age, nay death itself, considering tbe shortness of their duration, and the ...
... reason, I cannot think of any other that ought to banish this happy temper from a virtuous mind. Pain and sickness, shame and reproach, poverty and old age, nay death itself, considering tbe shortness of their duration, and the ...
Pagina 198
... reason I give them now as they were then delivered ; by which I hope to satisfy those people who have objected a change of prin- cijues to me, as if 1 were not now the same man I formerly was. I never had but one opinion of these ...
... reason I give them now as they were then delivered ; by which I hope to satisfy those people who have objected a change of prin- cijues to me, as if 1 were not now the same man I formerly was. I never had but one opinion of these ...
Pagina 201
... reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. Atticus, one of the best men of ancient Rome, was a very remarkable instance of what I am here speaking. This extraordinary person, amidst the civil wars of his country, when he ...
... reason I should prefer a prudent friend to a zealous one. Atticus, one of the best men of ancient Rome, was a very remarkable instance of what I am here speaking. This extraordinary person, amidst the civil wars of his country, when he ...
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