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... reason it were well for a man , not perhaps altogether to abate his desire of gain , ( though this should be done if it be excessive ) , but more assiduously still to direct his desires beyond , and purify the desire of gain by ...
... reason it were well for a man , not perhaps altogether to abate his desire of gain , ( though this should be done if it be excessive ) , but more assiduously still to direct his desires beyond , and purify the desire of gain by ...
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... vacillation , and perhaps as little apt to give offence as any , is the point blank refusal , without reasons assigned . Acquiescence is * Shakespeare . more easily given in the decisions of a strong will 26 OF MONEY .
... vacillation , and perhaps as little apt to give offence as any , is the point blank refusal , without reasons assigned . Acquiescence is * Shakespeare . more easily given in the decisions of a strong will 26 OF MONEY .
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... reasons , which weak men , under the bias of self - love , will always imagine themselves competent to controvert . Some men will lend money to a friend in order , as it were , to purchase a right of re- monstrance : but the right so ...
... reasons , which weak men , under the bias of self - love , will always imagine themselves competent to controvert . Some men will lend money to a friend in order , as it were , to purchase a right of re- monstrance : but the right so ...
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... reasons for believing that the custom needs to be reformed . If there be such reasons , by all means let the custom be disregarded , all ex- pectations to the contrary notwithstanding- " What custom wills , in all things should we do ...
... reasons for believing that the custom needs to be reformed . If there be such reasons , by all means let the custom be disregarded , all ex- pectations to the contrary notwithstanding- " What custom wills , in all things should we do ...
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... reason , for there will natu- rally be the most assertion of claims where there is the least ground for confidence . The claims strengthen with time , whilst the qualities for which mistresses are commonly chosen , and on which they ...
... reason , for there will natu- rally be the most assertion of claims where there is the least ground for confidence . The claims strengthen with time , whilst the qualities for which mistresses are commonly chosen , and on which they ...
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Page 181 - My days among the Dead are past; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old: My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day.
Page 186 - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Page 131 - For nature crescent does not grow alone In thews and bulk; but as this temple waxes, The inward service of the mind and soul Grows wide withal.
Page 152 - Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock ; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream, That...
Page 181 - My hopes are with the Dead; anon My place with them will be, And I with them shall travel on Through all Futurity; Yet leaving here a name, I trust, That will not perish in the dust.
Page 168 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 84 - The soberest and best governed men are least practised in these affairs; and who knows not that the bashful muteness of a virgin may ofttimes hide all the unliveliness and natural sloth which is really unfit for conversation?
Page 2 - Blessed is the rich that is found without blemish, And hath not gone after gold. Who is he? and we will call him blessed: For wonderful things hath he done among his people.
Page 33 - Rather than fool it so, Let the high office and the honour go To one that would do thus.
Page 115 - And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.