The Friend: A Series of Essays, in Three Volumes, to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion, with Literary Amusements Interspersed, Band 3R. Fenner, 1818 - 375 Seiten |
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... virtue , without apparent reason , even in the erroneous form in which the young adopt it . For there is a perpetual ... virtues with the changing manners of society : —and it is not for a young mind to compare what is gained with what ...
... virtue , without apparent reason , even in the erroneous form in which the young adopt it . For there is a perpetual ... virtues with the changing manners of society : —and it is not for a young mind to compare what is gained with what ...
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... or discouraged the youth , who , in the simplicity and purity of nature , had determined to follow his intellectual genius through good and through evil , and had devoted himself to knowledge , to the practice of virtue 29.
... or discouraged the youth , who , in the simplicity and purity of nature , had determined to follow his intellectual genius through good and through evil , and had devoted himself to knowledge , to the practice of virtue 29.
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... virtue and the preservation of integrity , in slight of temporal rewards . Above all , have not the common duties and cares of common life , at all times exposed men to injury , from causes whose action is the more fatal from being ...
... virtue and the preservation of integrity , in slight of temporal rewards . Above all , have not the common duties and cares of common life , at all times exposed men to injury , from causes whose action is the more fatal from being ...
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... or characters of more exalted virtue , than those which thousands of years ago have existed upon earth , as we know from the records of authentic history . Such is VOL . III . D the inherent dignity of human nature , that there belong 33.
... or characters of more exalted virtue , than those which thousands of years ago have existed upon earth , as we know from the records of authentic history . Such is VOL . III . D the inherent dignity of human nature , that there belong 33.
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... virtues which all men may attain , and which no man can tran- scend : and though this be not true in an equal degree , of intellectual power , yet in the persons of Plato , Demosthenes , and Homer , and in those of Shakespeare , Milton ...
... virtues which all men may attain , and which no man can tran- scend : and though this be not true in an equal degree , of intellectual power , yet in the persons of Plato , Demosthenes , and Homer , and in those of Shakespeare , Milton ...
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