Essays: First SeriesNational Home Library Foundation, 1932 - 172 pages |
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Page 35
... virtue or vice only by over- actions and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one ...
... virtue or vice only by over- actions and do not see that virtue or vice emit a breath every moment . Fear never but you shall be consistent in whatever variety of actions , so they be each honest and natural in their hour . For of one ...
Page 41
... virtue . We do not see that virtue is Height , and that a man or a company of men plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities , nations , kings , rich men , poets , who are not . This is ...
... virtue . We do not see that virtue is Height , and that a man or a company of men plastic and permeable to principles , by the law of nature must overpower and ride all cities , nations , kings , rich men , poets , who are not . This is ...
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... virtue ; and these virtues are there , however eclipsed . They appear and reappear , and continue to attract ; but the regard changes , quits the sign , and attaches to the substance . This repairs the wounded affection . Meantime , as ...
... virtue ; and these virtues are there , however eclipsed . They appear and reappear , and continue to attract ; but the regard changes , quits the sign , and attaches to the substance . This repairs the wounded affection . Meantime , as ...
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