Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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Side v
... feel inclined to bestow , even if they were sure of discovering nothing but beauties . Some also of my conclusions will no doubt be condemned by those who will not take the trouble of looking into the postulata ; for the soundest ...
... feel inclined to bestow , even if they were sure of discovering nothing but beauties . Some also of my conclusions will no doubt be condemned by those who will not take the trouble of looking into the postulata ; for the soundest ...
Side xiii
... feels that he is above it ; the old will not quit the school of their own ex- perience , and hope is the only moralist that has any weight with the young . There are many things on which even a coxcomb will receive instruction with ...
... feels that he is above it ; the old will not quit the school of their own ex- perience , and hope is the only moralist that has any weight with the young . There are many things on which even a coxcomb will receive instruction with ...
Side xiv
... feels however , from his experience , that he has had opportunities at least of observing , and he fancies from his vanity , that he has improved them . Can one ( says he ) be ignorant of those things that are so constantly and so ...
... feels however , from his experience , that he has had opportunities at least of observing , and he fancies from his vanity , that he has improved them . Can one ( says he ) be ignorant of those things that are so constantly and so ...
Side 26
... feel more for our- selves , than for our master . To lose our charity , in defence of our religion , is to sacrifice the citadel , to maintain the outworks ; a very imprudent mode of defence . There is an old poet who has said ...
... feel more for our- selves , than for our master . To lose our charity , in defence of our religion , is to sacrifice the citadel , to maintain the outworks ; a very imprudent mode of defence . There is an old poet who has said ...
Side 38
... feel him- self quite secure , until he has also drawn his teeth . The greater the power of him that is injured , the more inexpiable and persevering must be the efforts of those who have begun to injure him . There- fore a monarch who ...
... feel him- self quite secure , until he has also drawn his teeth . The greater the power of him that is injured , the more inexpiable and persevering must be the efforts of those who have begun to injure him . There- fore a monarch who ...
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