World's Laconics Being Choice Thoughts of Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1871 - 432 pages |
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... mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle of their friends and acquaintance . The poorest mechanic , nay , the man who lives upon common alms , gets him his set of ad- mirers , and delights in that superiority which he enjoys ...
... mankind endeavor to procure in the little circle of their friends and acquaintance . The poorest mechanic , nay , the man who lives upon common alms , gets him his set of ad- mirers , and delights in that superiority which he enjoys ...
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... mankind to reduce his specu- lations to practice . No man should think so highly of him- self , as to think he can receive but little light from books , nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from ...
... mankind to reduce his specu- lations to practice . No man should think so highly of him- self , as to think he can receive but little light from books , nor so meanly as to believe he can discover nothing but what is to be learned from ...
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... mankind.— M. de Scudery . COMPLAISANCE . - Complaisance , though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues , is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of . It was Plato's advice to an ...
... mankind.— M. de Scudery . COMPLAISANCE . - Complaisance , though in itself it be scarce reckoned in the number of moral virtues , is that which gives a lustre to every talent a man can be possessed of . It was Plato's advice to an ...
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... mankind , and staff of life . -Dryden . COURTESY . - The knowledge of courtesy and good man- ners is a very necessary study . It is , like grace and beauty , that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first ...
... mankind , and staff of life . -Dryden . COURTESY . - The knowledge of courtesy and good man- ners is a very necessary study . It is , like grace and beauty , that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first ...
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... Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster , that loves to be deceived , and has seldom been disappointed ; nor is their vanity less fallacious to our philosophers , who adopt modes of truth to follow them through the paths of error , and ...
... Mankind in the gross is a gaping monster , that loves to be deceived , and has seldom been disappointed ; nor is their vanity less fallacious to our philosophers , who adopt modes of truth to follow them through the paths of error , and ...
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