The British Essayists: The AdventurerLittle, Brown, 1866 - English essays |
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NO . 108. Natural and adventitious Excellence , less desirable than Virtue - Almerine and Shelimah : A Fairy Tale 104. The Fairy Tale , concluded ...... HAWKES . 105. On the Fragments of Menander ..... WARTON . 106. Insensibility of ...
NO . 108. Natural and adventitious Excellence , less desirable than Virtue - Almerine and Shelimah : A Fairy Tale 104. The Fairy Tale , concluded ...... HAWKES . 105. On the Fragments of Menander ..... WARTON . 106. Insensibility of ...
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... virtues and vices of man- kind , have been diversified in different times , only by unessential and casual varieties ; and we must , therefore , expect in the works of all those who at- tempt to describe them , such a likeness as we ...
... virtues and vices of man- kind , have been diversified in different times , only by unessential and casual varieties ; and we must , therefore , expect in the works of all those who at- tempt to describe them , such a likeness as we ...
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... virtue , he will , under every calamity , be able to rejoice in hope , and to anticipate the felicity of that state , in which the spirits of the just shall be made perfect . ' 6 No. 97 , TUESDAY , OCTOBER 9 , 1753 . Χρὴ δὲ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ...
... virtue , he will , under every calamity , be able to rejoice in hope , and to anticipate the felicity of that state , in which the spirits of the just shall be made perfect . ' 6 No. 97 , TUESDAY , OCTOBER 9 , 1753 . Χρὴ δὲ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ...
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... virtue ; and appetite , therefore , I shall allow to be noble , notwithstanding the objections of those who pretend that , whatever be its object , it can be good or ill in no other sense than stature or complexion ; and that the ...
... virtue ; and appetite , therefore , I shall allow to be noble , notwithstanding the objections of those who pretend that , whatever be its object , it can be good or ill in no other sense than stature or complexion ; and that the ...
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But with whatever efforts of heroic virtue my correspondent may have laboured to gratify his ' thirst of glory , ' I am afraid he will be disappointed . It is , indeed , true , that like the heroes of antiquity , whom successive ...
But with whatever efforts of heroic virtue my correspondent may have laboured to gratify his ' thirst of glory , ' I am afraid he will be disappointed . It is , indeed , true , that like the heroes of antiquity , whom successive ...
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