| Laura Valcheret (fict. name.) - 1814 - 242 pages
...spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants : it renounces no just right from fear ; It gives up no important truth from flattery ; it is...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value : upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can, with advantage, be superinduced.'' pisedand... | |
| Charles Buck - Theology - 1815 - 546 pages
...mean spirit of cowards and the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear; it gives up no important truth from flattery ; it is, indeed, not only consistent with a firm mind, ljut it necessa'rily requires a manly spirit and a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value.... | |
| Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...mean fpirit of cowards, and the fawning aifent of fycophants. It renounces no juft right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed not only confiftent with a firm mind, but it neceffatily requires a manly fpirit, and a fixed principle, in... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. ( It is...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. 'It stands... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1820 - 488 pages
...mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. It stands... | |
| Hugh Blair - Sermons - 1820 - 540 pages
...mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed...necessarily requires a manly spirit, and a fixed principle, in^rder to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage... | |
| Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from llattery. It is indeed not only consistent with a firm mind,...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. It stands... | |
| Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It isindeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily...fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish of gentleness can with advantage be superinduced. It stands... | |
| Moral essays - 1821 - 188 pages
...spirit of cowards, and the fawn. . ing assent of sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is indeed...firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit ahd a fixed principle, in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish... | |
| Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...sycophants. It renounces no just right from fear. It gives up no important truth from flattery. It is iodeed not only consistent with a firm mind, but it necessarily requires a manly spirit, aod a fixed principle- in order to give it any real value. Upon this solid ground only, the polish... | |
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