The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 13 |
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... virtues , difficult and painful , but attended with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it , for the natural ...
... virtues , difficult and painful , but attended with so much pleasure , that were there no positive command which enjoined it , nor any recompence laid up for it hereafter , a generous mind would indulge in it , for the natural ...
Pagina 12
... virtues are choked by the multitude of weeds which are suffered to grow among them ; how excellent parts are often starved and useless , by being planted in a wrong soil ; and how very seldom do these moral seeds produce the noble ...
... virtues are choked by the multitude of weeds which are suffered to grow among them ; how excellent parts are often starved and useless , by being planted in a wrong soil ; and how very seldom do these moral seeds produce the noble ...
Pagina 25
... virtue , the other betrays it . True modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is opposite to the humour of the company . True modesty avoids every thing that is criminal , false modesty every thing that is unfashion- able . The latter is ...
... virtue , the other betrays it . True modesty is ashamed to do any thing that is opposite to the humour of the company . True modesty avoids every thing that is criminal , false modesty every thing that is unfashion- able . The latter is ...
Pagina 26
... virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false modesty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will sug- gest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only ...
... virtue . In the second place , we are to consider false modesty , as it restrains a man from doing what is good and laudable . My reader's own thoughts will sug- gest to him many instances and examples under this head . I shall only ...
Pagina 39
... virtue , while you reform the taste of a profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine poems , whilst we are distinguished by so many thousand humours , and split into so many different sects and parties ; yet persons of ...
... virtue , while you reform the taste of a profane age ; and persuade us to be entertained with divine poems , whilst we are distinguished by so many thousand humours , and split into so many different sects and parties ; yet persons of ...
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