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" Truth, continued he, the most amiable as well as the most natural of virtues, you are at pains to eradicate. Your very nurseries are seminaries of falsehood ; and what is called Fashion in manhood, completes the system of avowed insincerity. Mankind in... "
The man of feeling: and Julia de Roubigné, a tale - Page 33
by Henry Mackenzie - 1820 - 114 pages
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The English instructor; or, Useful and entertaining passages in prose ...

English instructor - English literature - 1801 - 272 pages
...forms, which take from the honest emotions of joy, and add to the poignancy of misfortune. « Truth , the most amiable , as well as the most natural of...the gross, is a gaping monster , that loves to be deceivTH EE Jf G t I SH TN STHTTCTOR. >3l ed , and has seldom been disappointed : nor is their vanity...
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The Works of Henry Mackenzie, Volume 1

Henry Mackenzie - 1808 - 452 pages
...look with ' regard to his coat : it spoke of the sleek- L ,/* ness of folly, and the threadbareness of } "** wisdom. " Truth," continued he, " the most...monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappoint* ed : nor is their vanity less fallacious to your philosophers, who adopt modes of truth...
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The Miscellaneous Works of Henry Mackenzie, Volume 1

Henry Mackenzie - 1820 - 326 pages
...significance in his look with regard to his coat : it spoke of the sleekness of folly, and the thread bareness of wisdom. " Truth," continued he, " the most amiable, as well as the most natural of virtue?, you are at pains to eradicate. Your very nurseries are seminaries of falsehood ; and what...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 16

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 512 pages
...though it may seem a inratlmr, that in their hatred of sin, men may be sometimes loo passionate. Sprat. Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves...disappointed ; nor is their vanity less fallacious to our philosophers, who adopt modes of truth to follow them through the paths of error, and defend paradorei...
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Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs ..., Volume 1

Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...not absolutely free from faults, will certainly produce a candour in the judge. — Dryden. DCCCXXXVL Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves...disappointed; nor is their vanity less fallacious to our philosophers, who adopt modes of truth to follow them through the paths of error, and defend parodoxes...
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...definition is that which refines the pure essence of things from the circumstance. — Milton. DELUSION. — Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves...disappointed ; nor is their vanity less fallacious to our philosophers, who adopt modes of truth to follow them through the paths of error, and defend paradoxes...
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Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection ...

Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...Like noxious vapours from the fulsome Marsh When Morning shines upon it. Cf)e ifflpIU — Mackenzie. in the gross is a Gaping Monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed. Cf)£ JKlolU — Otway. THESE wide-mouth'd brutes, that bellow thus for Freedom; Oh ! how they run...
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The biblical museum, Volume 5

James Comper Gray - 1873 - 406 pages
...fragraut flowers. The art has not been lost ; nay, is practised every day, by the world."— Latimer. Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster that loves...to be deceived, and has seldom been disappointed." — Mackenzie. "It were happy for the Church if the abilities and ¡rudence of all er friends were...
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The biblical museum. Old Testament, Volume 2

James Comper Gray - 1877 - 402 pages
...and the autumn, rich with the golden sheaves, where good works and deeds have ripened on the Held." " Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster, that loves to be deceived, and has seldom been disappoin ted." — Mackenzie. с J. Hoice. Ephraim and Benjamin numbered я \ Ch. vii. 20— 20. Ь...
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The Man of Feeling

Henry Mackenzie - Benevolence - 1886 - 216 pages
...significance in his look with regard to this coat ; it spoke of the sleekness of folly and the threadbareness of wisdom. "Truth," continued he, "the most amiable,...in the gross, is a gaping monster, that loves to be fleceived, and has seldom been disappointed : nor is their vanity less fallacious to your philosophers,...
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