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... virtue , and can now hear me in cold blood . If there are any who have forfeited their innocence , they must now confider themselves under that me- lancholy view , in which Chamont regards his fifter , in those beautiful lines ; Long ...
... virtue , and can now hear me in cold blood . If there are any who have forfeited their innocence , they must now confider themselves under that me- lancholy view , in which Chamont regards his fifter , in those beautiful lines ; Long ...
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... virtue . Without innocence , beauty is unlovely , and quality contemptible , good - breeding degenerates into wantonnefs , and wit into impudence . It is obferved , that all the virtues are reprefented , by both painters and statuaries ...
... virtue . Without innocence , beauty is unlovely , and quality contemptible , good - breeding degenerates into wantonnefs , and wit into impudence . It is obferved , that all the virtues are reprefented , by both painters and statuaries ...
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... virtues . It is this fatal hypocrify and felf - deceit which is taken notice of in those words , Who can understand his ... virtue ! I fhall endeavour , therefore , to lay down fome rules for the discovery of those vices that lurk in the ...
... virtues . It is this fatal hypocrify and felf - deceit which is taken notice of in those words , Who can understand his ... virtue ! I fhall endeavour , therefore , to lay down fome rules for the discovery of those vices that lurk in the ...
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... virtues , an enemy inflames his crimes . A wife man fhould give a juft attention to both of them , fo far as they may tend to the improvement of the one , and the di- minution of the other . Plutarch has written an effay on the benefits ...
... virtues , an enemy inflames his crimes . A wife man fhould give a juft attention to both of them , fo far as they may tend to the improvement of the one , and the di- minution of the other . Plutarch has written an effay on the benefits ...
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... virtues we poffefs that are of a doubtful nature : and fuch we may esteem all thofe in which multitudes of men diffent from us , who are as good and wife as ourselves . We fhould always act with great cautiousness and circumfpection in ...
... virtues we poffefs that are of a doubtful nature : and fuch we may esteem all thofe in which multitudes of men diffent from us , who are as good and wife as ourselves . We fhould always act with great cautiousness and circumfpection in ...
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