Great Authors of All Ages: Being Selections from the Prose Works of Eminent Writers from the Time of Pericles to the Present DayJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1880 - 547 pages |
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... Moral Conduct .... 198 ... 186 Religion not Hostile to Pleasure ........... 106 Religion , Sherlock on ........ 148 Remorse , Godwin on ..... 277 195 Repentance , Death - Bed ... 72 195 Revelation , Evidences of ..... 128 88 Revolution ...
... Moral Conduct .... 198 ... 186 Religion not Hostile to Pleasure ........... 106 Religion , Sherlock on ........ 148 Remorse , Godwin on ..... 277 195 Repentance , Death - Bed ... 72 195 Revelation , Evidences of ..... 128 88 Revolution ...
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... moral prudence , are the Essays of Bacon .... The tran- scendent strength of Bacon's mind is visible in the whole tenor of these Essays , unequal as they must be from the very nature of such compositions . They are deeper and more ...
... moral prudence , are the Essays of Bacon .... The tran- scendent strength of Bacon's mind is visible in the whole tenor of these Essays , unequal as they must be from the very nature of such compositions . They are deeper and more ...
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... Moral , and Political , Lond . , without date , 12mo ; 2d edit . , Lond . , 1628 , 4to ; 3d , the first complete edit . , Lond . , 1628 , 4to ; 12th edit .. 1709 , 13th edit . , 1806 , & c . , 14th edit . , 1820 , & c . Both of the last ...
... Moral , and Political , Lond . , without date , 12mo ; 2d edit . , Lond . , 1628 , 4to ; 3d , the first complete edit . , Lond . , 1628 , 4to ; 12th edit .. 1709 , 13th edit . , 1806 , & c . , 14th edit . , 1820 , & c . Both of the last ...
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... moral honesty . Yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit , an admirable circumspection and sagacity , and a most magnanimous resolution . When he appeared first ...
... moral honesty . Yet wickedness as great as his could never have accomplished those designs without the assistance of a great spirit , an admirable circumspection and sagacity , and a most magnanimous resolution . When he appeared first ...
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... moral and civil . as well as divine precepts , that have been given to a nation ; and by the rewards pro- posed to the piety of the Jews , throughout the Old Testament , which were the blessings of this life , as health , length of age ...
... moral and civil . as well as divine precepts , that have been given to a nation ; and by the rewards pro- posed to the piety of the Jews , throughout the Old Testament , which were the blessings of this life , as health , length of age ...
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