Lacon, Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who ThinkCharles Wells, 1836 - 504 sider |
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... never so great , as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason ; it is from such a combination , like that of Buce- phalus , reined in by Alexander , that the most powerful efforts have been produced . And be it remembered ...
... never so great , as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason ; it is from such a combination , like that of Buce- phalus , reined in by Alexander , that the most powerful efforts have been produced . And be it remembered ...
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... never in the wrong . Such high pretensions are extremely awkward wherever the points of difference happen to be more numerous than those of agreement . A safer mode of proceeding would be to propose with diffidence , to conjecture with ...
... never in the wrong . Such high pretensions are extremely awkward wherever the points of difference happen to be more numerous than those of agreement . A safer mode of proceeding would be to propose with diffidence , to conjecture with ...
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... never suffered extreme adversity , knows not the full extent of his own depravation ; and he that has never enjoyed the summit of pros- perity is equally ignorant how far the iniquity of others can go . For our adversity will excite ...
... never suffered extreme adversity , knows not the full extent of his own depravation ; and he that has never enjoyed the summit of pros- perity is equally ignorant how far the iniquity of others can go . For our adversity will excite ...
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... never be a deficiency of this second class ; persons , who , like Doddington , have no higher ambition than that of sailing in the wake of a man of first rate abilities . I told the duke of Newcastle , ' says he , ( in the account he ...
... never be a deficiency of this second class ; persons , who , like Doddington , have no higher ambition than that of sailing in the wake of a man of first rate abilities . I told the duke of Newcastle , ' says he , ( in the account he ...
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... never sustained the smallest diminution ; appointments and offices were never pursued with more eagerness and intrigue , than when the heads of those who gained them , had they been held on merely by pieces of sticking plaster , could ...
... never sustained the smallest diminution ; appointments and offices were never pursued with more eagerness and intrigue , than when the heads of those who gained them , had they been held on merely by pieces of sticking plaster , could ...
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