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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... Virtue and Vice .......... PAGE 110 96 491 Virtue More Pleasant than Vice ........... 110 417 424 522 127 Wakefield , Family of ....... Wakefield Family in Affliction ............ Wakefield Family in Prosperity . War , Horrors of ...
... Virtue and Vice .......... PAGE 110 96 491 Virtue More Pleasant than Vice ........... 110 417 424 522 127 Wakefield , Family of ....... Wakefield Family in Affliction ............ Wakefield Family in Prosperity . War , Horrors of ...
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... virtue in action , by ac- tion to be honoured for it - by such as you see the public gratitude now performing about this funeral ; and that the virtues of many ought not to be endangered by the manage- ment of any one person , when ...
... virtue in action , by ac- tion to be honoured for it - by such as you see the public gratitude now performing about this funeral ; and that the virtues of many ought not to be endangered by the manage- ment of any one person , when ...
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... virtue but that of valour . Their last service effaceth all former demerits , -it extends to the public ; their private demeanors reached only to a few . Yet not one of these was at all induced to shrink from danger , through fondness ...
... virtue but that of valour . Their last service effaceth all former demerits , -it extends to the public ; their private demeanors reached only to a few . Yet not one of these was at all induced to shrink from danger , through fondness ...
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... virtue , I shall ex- press it all in one short admonition : It is your greatest glory not to be deficient in the virtue peculiar to your sex , and to give the men as little handle as possible to talk of your behaviour , whether well or ...
... virtue , I shall ex- press it all in one short admonition : It is your greatest glory not to be deficient in the virtue peculiar to your sex , and to give the men as little handle as possible to talk of your behaviour , whether well or ...
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... virtue . Do they envy the honours bestowed upon me ? let them envy likewise my labours , my abstinence , and the dangers I have undergone for my country , by which I have acquired them . But those worthless to men lead such a life of ...
... virtue . Do they envy the honours bestowed upon me ? let them envy likewise my labours , my abstinence , and the dangers I have undergone for my country , by which I have acquired them . But those worthless to men lead such a life of ...
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