The Friend: A Series of Essays to Aid in the Formation of Fixed Principles in Politics, Morals, and Religion. With Literary Amusements Interspersed |
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Page 145
... passions , to keep upper- most counteracted its own purpose , by wasting in internal con- test that energy , which before had acted in its entirenes on external resistance or provocation . Strength may be met with strength ; the power ...
... passions , to keep upper- most counteracted its own purpose , by wasting in internal con- test that energy , which before had acted in its entirenes on external resistance or provocation . Strength may be met with strength ; the power ...
Page 249
... passion , by passions and violence they are kept ; and every man is too apt to overvalue his own opinion ; and out of a desire that every man should conform his judgment to his that teaches , men are apt to be earnest in their ...
... passion , by passions and violence they are kept ; and every man is too apt to overvalue his own opinion ; and out of a desire that every man should conform his judgment to his that teaches , men are apt to be earnest in their ...
Page 337
... passion , serves only to fix the infatuation : -for those deep emotions , proving to him that his heart is uncorrupt ... passions to unworthy enjoyment . He engages in it with a heart and understanding unspoiled : but they cannot long be ...
... passion , serves only to fix the infatuation : -for those deep emotions , proving to him that his heart is uncorrupt ... passions to unworthy enjoyment . He engages in it with a heart and understanding unspoiled : but they cannot long be ...
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