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... wisdom and truth to which its introduce us . pages There is something ennobling in the thought , that we are here brought in contact with a great and dignified assem blage of illustrious minds , chiefly of the past , INTRODUCTION . vii.
... wisdom and truth to which its introduce us . pages There is something ennobling in the thought , that we are here brought in contact with a great and dignified assem blage of illustrious minds , chiefly of the past , INTRODUCTION . vii.
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... wisdom and judgment.— Clarendon . AGE , OLD , ILL - NATURED . - There cannot live a more unhap- py creature than an ill - natured old man , who is neither capa- ble of receiving pleasures , nor sensible of doing them to oth- ers . - Sir ...
... wisdom and judgment.— Clarendon . AGE , OLD , ILL - NATURED . - There cannot live a more unhap- py creature than an ill - natured old man , who is neither capa- ble of receiving pleasures , nor sensible of doing them to oth- ers . - Sir ...
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... wisdom of Athens , confounded their statesmen , struck their orators dumb , and at length argued them out of all their liberties . - Addison . BUILDING . - Never build after you are five - and - forty ; have five years ' income in hand ...
... wisdom of Athens , confounded their statesmen , struck their orators dumb , and at length argued them out of all their liberties . - Addison . BUILDING . - Never build after you are five - and - forty ; have five years ' income in hand ...
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... wisdom , is too often only the evidence of the conceit that would magnify self , and of the malignity or envy that would detract from others . - T . Edwards . CENSURE . Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent ...
... wisdom , is too often only the evidence of the conceit that would magnify self , and of the malignity or envy that would detract from others . - T . Edwards . CENSURE . Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent ...
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... wisdom from our councils , and every shadow of au- thority and credit from the most venerable parts of our con- stitution . - Burke . COSMETICS . - There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity , modesty and humility ...
... wisdom from our councils , and every shadow of au- thority and credit from the most venerable parts of our con- stitution . - Burke . COSMETICS . - There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity , modesty and humility ...
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