Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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... passions are the powerful and disturbing forces , the greater or the less prevalence of which , gives individuality to character . But we must not only express clearly , but think deep- ly , nor can we concede to Buffon that style alone ...
... passions are the powerful and disturbing forces , the greater or the less prevalence of which , gives individuality to character . But we must not only express clearly , but think deep- ly , nor can we concede to Buffon that style alone ...
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... passions , would have been so . much higher , by subduing them ; and so far from presuming that the world would give them credit for talent , on the score of their aberrations and their extravagances , all that they dared hope or expect ...
... passions , would have been so . much higher , by subduing them ; and so far from presuming that the world would give them credit for talent , on the score of their aberrations and their extravagances , all that they dared hope or expect ...
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... passions , as they successively decay . But unlike other tombs it is enlarged by repletion and strength- ened by age . The latter paradox , so peculiar to this passion , must be ascribed to that love of power inseparable from the human ...
... passions , as they successively decay . But unlike other tombs it is enlarged by repletion and strength- ened by age . The latter paradox , so peculiar to this passion , must be ascribed to that love of power inseparable from the human ...
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... passions , jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service , and pays the bitterest wages . Its service is to watch the success of our enemy ; its wages - to be sure of it . Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules ; while ...
... passions , jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service , and pays the bitterest wages . Its service is to watch the success of our enemy ; its wages - to be sure of it . Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules ; while ...
Side 40
... passion , ' like the wind and storm , fulfilling his word . ' Even human knowledge is permitted to approx- imate in some degree , and on certain occasions , to that of the Deity , its pure and primary source ; and this assimilation is ...
... passion , ' like the wind and storm , fulfilling his word . ' Even human knowledge is permitted to approx- imate in some degree , and on certain occasions , to that of the Deity , its pure and primary source ; and this assimilation is ...
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