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Page 57
... passion whose effects are various : It ever brings some change upon the soul ; Some virtue , or some vice , till then unknown , Degrades the hero , and makes cowards valiant . Brooke . The cold in clime are cold in blood ; Their LOVE . 57.
... passion whose effects are various : It ever brings some change upon the soul ; Some virtue , or some vice , till then unknown , Degrades the hero , and makes cowards valiant . Brooke . The cold in clime are cold in blood ; Their LOVE . 57.
Page 106
... fool is the most pestilent of blockheads ; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle , and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own . Stanislaus . If idleness in man do not produce vice , it 106 MAN .
... fool is the most pestilent of blockheads ; his learning is a flail which he knows not how to handle , and with which he breaks his neighbor's shins as well as his own . Stanislaus . If idleness in man do not produce vice , it 106 MAN .
Page 107
... vice of scholars to suppose there is no know- ledge in the world except that contained in books . Hazlitt . Books are white paper unless men spend in action the wisdom they get from thought . Bulwer . ' Tis pleasant sure to see one's ...
... vice of scholars to suppose there is no know- ledge in the world except that contained in books . Hazlitt . Books are white paper unless men spend in action the wisdom they get from thought . Bulwer . ' Tis pleasant sure to see one's ...
Page 111
... tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep . Shakspeare . Some steal a thought , And clip it round the edge , and challenge him Whose ' twas to swear to it . Bailey . Virtue in distress and vice in triumph Make atheists of.
... tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep . Shakspeare . Some steal a thought , And clip it round the edge , and challenge him Whose ' twas to swear to it . Bailey . Virtue in distress and vice in triumph Make atheists of.
Page 112
William Hardcastle Browne. Virtue in distress and vice in triumph Make atheists of mankind . Dryden . The monarch mind , the mystery of commanding , The birth - hour gift , the art Napoleon , Of winning , fettering , moulding , wielding ...
William Hardcastle Browne. Virtue in distress and vice in triumph Make atheists of mankind . Dryden . The monarch mind , the mystery of commanding , The birth - hour gift , the art Napoleon , Of winning , fettering , moulding , wielding ...
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