World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... vice . -Cato . - AGRICULTURE AND WEALTH . - There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth : the first is by war , as the Romans did , in plundering their conquered neighbors- this is robbery ; the second by commerce ...
... vice . -Cato . - AGRICULTURE AND WEALTH . - There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth : the first is by war , as the Romans did , in plundering their conquered neighbors- this is robbery ; the second by commerce ...
Page 54
... that improves all the virtue , and corrects all the vice of the former , and of nature itself.— Clarendon . COUNTRY AND CITY . - The corruptions of the country are closely allied to those of the town , with no 54 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
... that improves all the virtue , and corrects all the vice of the former , and of nature itself.— Clarendon . COUNTRY AND CITY . - The corruptions of the country are closely allied to those of the town , with no 54 THE WORLD'S LACONICS .
Page 59
... vice : there is scarce any exi- gence where it may not , and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence . - Bruyere . CUNNING . — Cunning pays no regard to virtue , and is but the low mimic of wisdom . - Bolingbroke . CUNNING AND ...
... vice : there is scarce any exi- gence where it may not , and perhaps ought not to be supplied by prudence . - Bruyere . CUNNING . — Cunning pays no regard to virtue , and is but the low mimic of wisdom . - Bolingbroke . CUNNING AND ...
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... , or the allurements of vice , it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion , consideration , age , or misfortunes have brought the man to himself . The fire may be covered THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 67.
... , or the allurements of vice , it generally breaks out and discovers itself again as soon as discretion , consideration , age , or misfortunes have brought the man to himself . The fire may be covered THE WORLD'S LACONICS . 67.
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... vice of a good consti- tution , or of a bad memory : -of a constitution so treacher- ously good , that it never bends till it breaks ; or of a mem- ory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated , but forgets the pains of ...
... vice of a good consti- tution , or of a bad memory : -of a constitution so treacher- ously good , that it never bends till it breaks ; or of a mem- ory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated , but forgets the pains of ...
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