Select British Classics, Volume 25J. Conrad, 1803 - English literature |
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... virtues . It gives a pleasing prospect to your friends , that is to say , to the friends of your country , that you have passed through the highest offices , at an age when others usually do but form to themselves the hopes of them ...
... virtues . It gives a pleasing prospect to your friends , that is to say , to the friends of your country , that you have passed through the highest offices , at an age when others usually do but form to themselves the hopes of them ...
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... virtue , and partake of many gifts of fortune and power that I was never born to . There is nothing in parti- cular in which I so much rejoice as the deliverance of good and generous spirits out of dangers , difficul- 18 THE TATLER . No ...
... virtue , and partake of many gifts of fortune and power that I was never born to . There is nothing in parti- cular in which I so much rejoice as the deliverance of good and generous spirits out of dangers , difficul- 18 THE TATLER . No ...
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... virtue rewarded : indeed , were we able to view a man in the whole circle of his existence , we should have the satisfaction of see- ing it close with happiness or misery , according to its proper merit : but though our view of him is ...
... virtue rewarded : indeed , were we able to view a man in the whole circle of his existence , we should have the satisfaction of see- ing it close with happiness or misery , according to its proper merit : but though our view of him is ...
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... virtue . I would undertake to find out all the per- sons of sense and breeding by the effect of a single sentence , and to distinguish a gentleman as much by his laugh , as his bow . When we see the footman and his lord diverted by the ...
... virtue . I would undertake to find out all the per- sons of sense and breeding by the effect of a single sentence , and to distinguish a gentleman as much by his laugh , as his bow . When we see the footman and his lord diverted by the ...
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... virtue were deservedly placed at the head of mankind : but alas ! pleasures of this na- ture are not frequently to be met with on the English stage . The Athenians , at a time when they were the most polite , as well as the most ...
... virtue were deservedly placed at the head of mankind : but alas ! pleasures of this na- ture are not frequently to be met with on the English stage . The Athenians , at a time when they were the most polite , as well as the most ...
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