Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes ...J.B. Lippincott, 1905 - 764 oldal |
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... pleasure , profit , and ambition , I cannot yet comprehend how these persons find their account in any of the three . SWIFT . In every action reflect upon the end ; and in reason . Actions have their preference , not according to the ...
... pleasure , profit , and ambition , I cannot yet comprehend how these persons find their account in any of the three . SWIFT . In every action reflect upon the end ; and in reason . Actions have their preference , not according to the ...
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... pleasure . DRYDEN . There is a pleasure in admiration ; and this is that which properly causeth admiration : when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent , and yet we see ( we know not how much ) more ...
... pleasure . DRYDEN . There is a pleasure in admiration ; and this is that which properly causeth admiration : when we discover a great deal in an object which we understand to be excellent , and yet we see ( we know not how much ) more ...
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... pleasure , we shall never be ray an affectation , for we cannot be guilty of it ; but when we give the passion for praise an unbridled liberty , our pleasure in little perfections robs us of what is due to us for great virtues and ...
... pleasure , we shall never be ray an affectation , for we cannot be guilty of it ; but when we give the passion for praise an unbridled liberty , our pleasure in little perfections robs us of what is due to us for great virtues and ...
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... pleasure ; and if life has been termed a feast , those favoured few are the most fortunate guests who are not com- pelled to sit at the table when they can no longer partake of the banquet . But the mis- fortune is , that body and mind ...
... pleasure ; and if life has been termed a feast , those favoured few are the most fortunate guests who are not com- pelled to sit at the table when they can no longer partake of the banquet . But the mis- fortune is , that body and mind ...
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... pleasure . DR . S. JOHNSON : Rambler , No. 41 . Another vice of age , by which the rising gen- eration may be alienated from it , is severity and censoriousness , that gives no allowance to the failings of early life , that expects ...
... pleasure . DR . S. JOHNSON : Rambler , No. 41 . Another vice of age , by which the rising gen- eration may be alienated from it , is severity and censoriousness , that gives no allowance to the failings of early life , that expects ...
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