World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors in Prose and PoetryDodd, 1866 - 432 pages |
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... young especially , should have intelligent and faithful guides in their selection of books ; and those who have undertaken this office , and performed it success- fully , may justly be regarded as public benefactors . There is scarcely ...
... young especially , should have intelligent and faithful guides in their selection of books ; and those who have undertaken this office , and performed it success- fully , may justly be regarded as public benefactors . There is scarcely ...
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... Young . ADVICE , HOW TO BE GIVEN . — Advice and reprehension re- quire the utmost delicacy ; and painful truths should be de- livered in the softest terms , and expressed no farther than is necessary to produce their due effect . A ...
... Young . ADVICE , HOW TO BE GIVEN . — Advice and reprehension re- quire the utmost delicacy ; and painful truths should be de- livered in the softest terms , and expressed no farther than is necessary to produce their due effect . A ...
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... young begin with being ridiculous , and often end in being vicious . Blair . AFFECTATION OF KNOWLEDGE . — All false practices and affectations of knowledge are more odious to God , and de- serve to be so to men , than any want or defect ...
... young begin with being ridiculous , and often end in being vicious . Blair . AFFECTATION OF KNOWLEDGE . — All false practices and affectations of knowledge are more odious to God , and de- serve to be so to men , than any want or defect ...
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... young , we are slav- ishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old ; and when we are old , we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed . - Pope . AGE , OLD , CENSORIOUS . - Age , though it ...
... young , we are slav- ishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old ; and when we are old , we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed . - Pope . AGE , OLD , CENSORIOUS . - Age , though it ...
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... young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr , observed , that he would believe nothing which he could not understand . Then , young man , your creed will be the shortest of any 66 man's I know . " BENEFICENCE . - There is ...
... young man one day conversing with the celebrated Dr. Parr , observed , that he would believe nothing which he could not understand . Then , young man , your creed will be the shortest of any 66 man's I know . " BENEFICENCE . - There is ...
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