The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3G. Bell, 1882 |
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Page 110
... look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little , mean , ungenerous minds . Dis- cretion points out the noblest ends to us , and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them : cun- ning has only private , selfish ...
... look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little , mean , ungenerous minds . Dis- cretion points out the noblest ends to us , and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them : cun- ning has only private , selfish ...
Page 410
... Look upon the outside of a dome , your eye half surrounds it ; look up into the inside , and at one glance you have all the prospect of it ; the entire concavity falls into your eye at once , the sight being as the centre that collects ...
... Look upon the outside of a dome , your eye half surrounds it ; look up into the inside , and at one glance you have all the prospect of it ; the entire concavity falls into your eye at once , the sight being as the centre that collects ...
Page 495
... look into the secret springs and motives that set people at work on these occasions , and put them upon ask- ing advice , which they never intend to take ; I look upon it to be none of the least , that they are incapable of keeping a ...
... look into the secret springs and motives that set people at work on these occasions , and put them upon ask- ing advice , which they never intend to take ; I look upon it to be none of the least , that they are incapable of keeping a ...
Contents
Use of MottosLove of Latin among the Common PeopleSignature Letters | 1 |
Letter on BashfulnessReflections on Modesty 225 Discretion and Cunning | 109 |
Letter on the Lovers Leap 229 Fragment of Sappho | 115 |
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