The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their Epitome, the Stage ..., 10. köideproprietors, 1800 |
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... virtue and vice have . << There are things which we are in doubt whether to call very good , or very bad , though we are sure they are one or the other . As " wit is nearly allied to madness , " so there is but a very narrow boundary ...
... virtue and vice have . << There are things which we are in doubt whether to call very good , or very bad , though we are sure they are one or the other . As " wit is nearly allied to madness , " so there is but a very narrow boundary ...
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... virtue , that they are one of the most successful engines of vice that Satan ever in- vented . Several of the heathen philosophers and law - givers opposed them in the strongest terms . Plato banishes them from his common- wealth ...
... virtue , that they are one of the most successful engines of vice that Satan ever in- vented . Several of the heathen philosophers and law - givers opposed them in the strongest terms . Plato banishes them from his common- wealth ...
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... virtue shine in some parts of it ; it is not the custom to prepare poison unpalatably . No ; to make the mischief spread , they must oblige the sense , and make the dose pleasant . Thus the devil throws in a cordial drop to make the ...
... virtue shine in some parts of it ; it is not the custom to prepare poison unpalatably . No ; to make the mischief spread , they must oblige the sense , and make the dose pleasant . Thus the devil throws in a cordial drop to make the ...
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... virtues of the golden age , and the primitive rights and equality of mankind , which would lead , in fair reasoning , to an equal partition of lands and money . How many years must elapse before France can reco- ver any vigour , or ...
... virtues of the golden age , and the primitive rights and equality of mankind , which would lead , in fair reasoning , to an equal partition of lands and money . How many years must elapse before France can reco- ver any vigour , or ...
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... virtues of great men , were celebrated ; de- votion to their gods recommended and enforced ; the good were ren- dered immortal by the songs of their poets ; the young and luxuri- ous were incited , by such examples , to imitate the ...
... virtues of great men , were celebrated ; de- votion to their gods recommended and enforced ; the good were ren- dered immortal by the songs of their poets ; the young and luxuri- ous were incited , by such examples , to imitate the ...
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Page 81 - One flesh was call'd, who had her eye On worldly wealth and vanity; The other Spirit, who did rear Her thoughts unto a higher sphere: Sister, quoth Flesh, what liv'st thou on Nothing but Meditation?