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... vice , as well as to animate them with sentiments of piety and goodness , such impressions deeply engraven on their minds , and connected with all their attainments , could scarcely fail of attending them through life , and of producing ...
... vice , as well as to animate them with sentiments of piety and goodness , such impressions deeply engraven on their minds , and connected with all their attainments , could scarcely fail of attending them through life , and of producing ...
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... Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius , employed in little things , appears ( to use the similie of Longinus ) like the sun in his evening de- clination : he remits his ...
... Vice is infamous , though in a prince ; and virtue honourable , though in a peasant . An elevated genius , employed in little things , appears ( to use the similie of Longinus ) like the sun in his evening de- clination : he remits his ...
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... vice . The irregular gratifica- tions into which it occasionally seduces him , appear under the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged in the be- ginning , with scrupulousness and reserve . But , by longer practice these ...
... vice . The irregular gratifica- tions into which it occasionally seduces him , appear under the form of venial weaknesses ; and are indulged in the be- ginning , with scrupulousness and reserve . But , by longer practice these ...
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... vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ! how weak is human nature , which , in the absence ...
... vice , when one guilty passion creates so much torment ! how unavailing is prosperity , when in the height of it , a single disappointment can destroy the relish of all its pleasures ! how weak is human nature , which , in the absence ...
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... vice , hang themselves upon the next tree , as it sometimes happens in our American plantations , who can forbear ad- miring their fidelity , though it expresses itself in so dreadful a manner ? 5 What might not that savage greatness of ...
... vice , hang themselves upon the next tree , as it sometimes happens in our American plantations , who can forbear ad- miring their fidelity , though it expresses itself in so dreadful a manner ? 5 What might not that savage greatness of ...
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