Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes ...J.B. Lippincott, 1905 - 764 oldal |
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... misery as by the extremes of prosperity . BURKE : Afflictions sent by Providence melt the con- stancy of the noble - minded , but confirm the obduracy of the vile . The same furnace that hardens clay liquefies gold ; and in the strong ...
... misery as by the extremes of prosperity . BURKE : Afflictions sent by Providence melt the con- stancy of the noble - minded , but confirm the obduracy of the vile . The same furnace that hardens clay liquefies gold ; and in the strong ...
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... misery , and are inclined to despise him who sinks under the weight of his SIR R. STEELE : Spectator , No. 312 . distresses . Before an affliction is digested , consolation ever comes too soon ; and after it is digested , it comes too ...
... misery , and are inclined to despise him who sinks under the weight of his SIR R. STEELE : Spectator , No. 312 . distresses . Before an affliction is digested , consolation ever comes too soon ; and after it is digested , it comes too ...
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... misery : but happily the contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial , and life acquires an imaginary value in proportion as its real value is no more . GOLDSMITH : Essays , No. XIV .; also in Citizen of ...
... misery : but happily the contempt of death forsakes him at a time when it could only be prejudicial , and life acquires an imaginary value in proportion as its real value is no more . GOLDSMITH : Essays , No. XIV .; also in Citizen of ...
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... misery , in which every reflection must plunge him deeper , and where he finds only new gra- dations of anguish and precipices of horror . DR . S. JOHNSON : Rambler , No. 69 . That natural jealousy which makes every mar unwilling to ...
... misery , in which every reflection must plunge him deeper , and where he finds only new gra- dations of anguish and precipices of horror . DR . S. JOHNSON : Rambler , No. 69 . That natural jealousy which makes every mar unwilling to ...
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... misery ; and certain it is that , where we cannot distinguish ourselves by something excellent , we begin to take a complacency in some singular infirmities , follies , or defects of one kind or other . BURKE : On the Sublime and ...
... misery ; and certain it is that , where we cannot distinguish ourselves by something excellent , we begin to take a complacency in some singular infirmities , follies , or defects of one kind or other . BURKE : On the Sublime and ...
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