Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 Seiten |
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... temper and business . - Wm . Penn's Works . CUSTOм . - Pythagoras gave this excellent pre- cept : " Choose always the way that seems best ; how rough soever it be . Custom will render it easy and agreeable . " - M . Dacier's Pythagoras ...
... temper and business . - Wm . Penn's Works . CUSTOм . - Pythagoras gave this excellent pre- cept : " Choose always the way that seems best ; how rough soever it be . Custom will render it easy and agreeable . " - M . Dacier's Pythagoras ...
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... tempers the morose austerity of age . Will any one offer to persuade us that the education of children , which are the very images of our bodies and pictures of our minds , and in whom we see as it were our very selves born again anew ...
... tempers the morose austerity of age . Will any one offer to persuade us that the education of children , which are the very images of our bodies and pictures of our minds , and in whom we see as it were our very selves born again anew ...
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... the qualification of little ungenerous tempers . A young man with this cast of mind cuts himself off from all manner of improvement . Spectator . C Justice and generosity rightly blended constitute a dignified character ; 25.
... the qualification of little ungenerous tempers . A young man with this cast of mind cuts himself off from all manner of improvement . Spectator . C Justice and generosity rightly blended constitute a dignified character ; 25.
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... temper . All nature is ready for his view , and all ages of mankind appear at his call . He can transport himself to the most distant regions , and enjoy the best and politest company that ever the world afforded . Hibernicus's Letters ...
... temper . All nature is ready for his view , and all ages of mankind appear at his call . He can transport himself to the most distant regions , and enjoy the best and politest company that ever the world afforded . Hibernicus's Letters ...
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... temper , will give you an easy companion for life ; virtue and good sense an agreeable friend ; love and constancy a good wife or husband . - Spectator . RETIREMENT . - Before you think of retiring from the world , be sure you are fit ...
... temper , will give you an easy companion for life ; virtue and good sense an agreeable friend ; love and constancy a good wife or husband . - Spectator . RETIREMENT . - Before you think of retiring from the world , be sure you are fit ...
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