Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages in Prose: Selected for the Improvement of Young Persons: Being Similar in Design to Elegant Extracts in PoetryVicesimus Knox J. Johnson, 1808 - 1 من الصفحات An anthology of prose passages primarily from Greek, Roman, and English authors. |
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... honour . The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature , that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble , or in such as have been cultivated by great examples , or a refined education . This essay therefore ...
... honour . The sense of honour is of so fine and delicate a nature , that it is only to be met with in minds which are naturally noble , or in such as have been cultivated by great examples , or a refined education . This essay therefore ...
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... honour . Timogenes was a lively instance of one actuated by false honour . Timogenes would smile at a man's jest who ridiculed bis Ma- ker , and at the same time run a man through the body that spoke ill of his friend . Ti- mogenes ...
... honour . Timogenes was a lively instance of one actuated by false honour . Timogenes would smile at a man's jest who ridiculed bis Ma- ker , and at the same time run a man through the body that spoke ill of his friend . Ti- mogenes ...
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... HONOUR . Nobility resideth not but in the soul ; nor is there true honour except in virtue . The favour of princes may be bought by vice ; rank and titles may be purchased for money ; but these are not true honour . Crimes cannot exalt ...
... HONOUR . Nobility resideth not but in the soul ; nor is there true honour except in virtue . The favour of princes may be bought by vice ; rank and titles may be purchased for money ; but these are not true honour . Crimes cannot exalt ...
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