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... persons sooner attain to a warmth and maturity of judgment , and to a wonderful discerning of what ought or ought not to be done , than men of quicker and more subtle parts of nature , who seldom bear the labour of thinking . Whereas ...
... persons sooner attain to a warmth and maturity of judgment , and to a wonderful discerning of what ought or ought not to be done , than men of quicker and more subtle parts of nature , who seldom bear the labour of thinking . Whereas ...
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... persons it possesses , before it can destroy those it hates , it would set the world on fire , and leave the most excellent persons the most miserable . Of all the affections and passions which lodge themselves within the breast of man ...
... persons it possesses , before it can destroy those it hates , it would set the world on fire , and leave the most excellent persons the most miserable . Of all the affections and passions which lodge themselves within the breast of man ...
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... person , but he chuses it not ; he had rather provoke a worse man , and always recollects himself upon the sight of the magistrate . Lust , that is blind and frantic , courts the worst company , and seldom assaults chastity . But envy ...
... person , but he chuses it not ; he had rather provoke a worse man , and always recollects himself upon the sight of the magistrate . Lust , that is blind and frantic , courts the worst company , and seldom assaults chastity . But envy ...
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... person , but as Lu- cretius says . Parvula , pumilio , Xapírwv uía , tota merum sal . Luc . iv . 1155 . Where there is one man of this , I believe there are a thousand of Senecio's mind , whose ridiculous affectation of grandeur Seneca ...
... person , but as Lu- cretius says . Parvula , pumilio , Xapírwv uía , tota merum sal . Luc . iv . 1155 . Where there is one man of this , I believe there are a thousand of Senecio's mind , whose ridiculous affectation of grandeur Seneca ...
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... person of their offspring , the late giant of our nation , when from the condition of a very inconsiderable captain , he had made himself lieutenant general of an army of little Titans , which was his first mountain , and afterwards ...
... person of their offspring , the late giant of our nation , when from the condition of a very inconsiderable captain , he had made himself lieutenant general of an army of little Titans , which was his first mountain , and afterwards ...
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à corps perdu actions admirable advantage affections agreeable antient beauty Beelzebub Ben Jonson better body born for love Cæsar called cern chuse common compass courage Cowley danger deceived defects delight disposition divine Domitian envy Epicurus ESSAY esteem evil excellent fancy fear force fortune friends genius happy honour Horace human humour imagination industry judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind labour laws less liberty live look Lord Bacon Lord Clarendon Lord Shaftesbury Lucretius mankind mean ment mind miscellany mour nation nature ness never object observation occasion opinion passions perfection perhaps persons philosophers pleasure poetry poets praise pretenders princes reason rience Seneca the elder Septimus Severus shew Sir William Temple sort spirit suspicions taste temper thing thought tion true truth uncon vanity verses virtue wisdom wise wonder writing youth