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a great beauty and in royal majesty , or a magnificent city , paved with gold , full of brightness , and a glorious throne ? So it is no more than the same sort of power , that is requisite to paint one as the other of these on the ...
a great beauty and in royal majesty , or a magnificent city , paved with gold , full of brightness , and a glorious throne ? So it is no more than the same sort of power , that is requisite to paint one as the other of these on the ...
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Therefore , I suppose , I shall not depart from the common opinion , when I say , that virtue is the beauty of the qualities and exercises of the heart , or those actions which proceed from them . So that when it is inquired , what is ...
Therefore , I suppose , I shall not depart from the common opinion , when I say , that virtue is the beauty of the qualities and exercises of the heart , or those actions which proceed from them . So that when it is inquired , what is ...
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It is because his heart is thus united to being in general , that he looks on a benevolent propensity to being in general , wherever he sees it , as the beauty of the being in whom it is ; an excellency that renders him worthy of esteem ...
It is because his heart is thus united to being in general , that he looks on a benevolent propensity to being in general , wherever he sees it , as the beauty of the being in whom it is ; an excellency that renders him worthy of esteem ...
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| Title | Colonial and Federalist American Writing The Odyssey surveys of American writing |
| Author | George F. Horner |
| Publisher | Odyssey Press, 1966 |
| Length | 946 pages |
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