The Christian Hero: An Argument Proving that No Principles But Those of Religion are Sufficient to Make a Great Man. Written by Mr. SteeleW. Phorson, 1792 - 71 من الصفحات |
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... are taught to do our happiness , " with fear and trembling . " But this misfortune we owe , as we do most others , to an unjust education , by which we are infpired with with an ambition of acquiring fuch modes and accom- plishments THE ...
... are taught to do our happiness , " with fear and trembling . " But this misfortune we owe , as we do most others , to an unjust education , by which we are infpired with with an ambition of acquiring fuch modes and accom- plishments THE ...
الصفحة 2
... ambition of acquiring fuch modes and accom- plishments , as rather enable us to give pleasure and entertainment to others , than fatisfaction and quiet . to ourselves : fo phantaftical are we as to dress for a ball when we are to set ...
... ambition of acquiring fuch modes and accom- plishments , as rather enable us to give pleasure and entertainment to others , than fatisfaction and quiet . to ourselves : fo phantaftical are we as to dress for a ball when we are to set ...
الصفحة 3
... ambition , and feldom rifes to more than the cold approbation of a duty that perhaps a man wishes he were not obliged to . Or , in a word , Why is it that the Heathen ftruts , and the Chriftian fneaks in our imagination ? If it be as ...
... ambition , and feldom rifes to more than the cold approbation of a duty that perhaps a man wishes he were not obliged to . Or , in a word , Why is it that the Heathen ftruts , and the Chriftian fneaks in our imagination ? If it be as ...
الصفحة 5
... ambition : Cæ- far had an excellent common fenfe and right judg- ment of occafion , time , and place ; the other blunt man understood not application , knew how to be in , the right , but was generally fo , out of feafon : Ca- far's ...
... ambition : Cæ- far had an excellent common fenfe and right judg- ment of occafion , time , and place ; the other blunt man understood not application , knew how to be in , the right , but was generally fo , out of feafon : Ca- far's ...
الصفحة 10
... ambition , and the largeness of his pernicious capa- city ; his capacity which confifted in a skilful diffimu-- lation of his faults ; for being full of thofe vices which nearly approach , and easily affume the resemblance of virtue ...
... ambition , and the largeness of his pernicious capa- city ; his capacity which confifted in a skilful diffimu-- lation of his faults ; for being full of thofe vices which nearly approach , and easily affume the resemblance of virtue ...
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