CharacterJ. Murray, 1876 - 388 էջ |
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... Society " . Moral cowardice - Pandering to popularity Intellectual intrepidity - Energetic courage- Courage and ten- derness - Generosity of the brave - The Douglas - Laplace - The magnanimous man Education of women in courage . Moral ...
... Society " . Moral cowardice - Pandering to popularity Intellectual intrepidity - Energetic courage- Courage and ten- derness - Generosity of the brave - The Douglas - Laplace - The magnanimous man Education of women in courage . Moral ...
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... society - Equivocation - Pretentiousness The life of George Wilson : his labours , sufferings , and death 188-215 - CHAPTER VIII . TEMPER . Cheerfulness of disposition - Jeremy Taylor - Cheerfulness a tonic - A beam in the eye- Dr ...
... society - Equivocation - Pretentiousness The life of George Wilson : his labours , sufferings , and death 188-215 - CHAPTER VIII . TEMPER . Cheerfulness of disposition - Jeremy Taylor - Cheerfulness a tonic - A beam in the eye- Dr ...
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... society - Interest of biography - The great lesson of biography - The Book of Books - History and biography - Plutarch's Lives , ' their influence - Plutarch's art - Trifles in biography - Portraiture of character Autobiography - French ...
... society - Interest of biography - The great lesson of biography - The Book of Books - History and biography - Plutarch's Lives , ' their influence - Plutarch's art - Trifles in biography - Portraiture of character Autobiography - French ...
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... society to which they belong . " - Emerson . " The prosperity of a country depends , not on the abundance of its revenues , nor onl the strength of its fortifications , nor on the beauty of its public buildings ; but it consists in the ...
... society to which they belong . " - Emerson . " The prosperity of a country depends , not on the abundance of its revenues , nor onl the strength of its fortifications , nor on the beauty of its public buildings ; but it consists in the ...
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... society in the relation of its intellect , as men of character of its conscience ; and while the former are admired , the latter are followed . Great men are always exceptional men ; and great- ness itself is but comparative . Indeed ...
... society in the relation of its intellect , as men of character of its conscience ; and while the former are admired , the latter are followed . Great men are always exceptional men ; and great- ness itself is but comparative . Indeed ...
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Էջ 185 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Էջ 249 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee...
Էջ 327 - MORTON'S WIFE. He first deceased ; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.
Էջ 171 - High-heartedness doth sometimes teach to bow. A noble heart doth teach a virtuous scorn, To scorn to owe a duty overlong ; To scorn to be for benefits forborne, To scorn to lie, to scorn to do a wrong. To scorn to bear an injury in mind, To scorn a free-born heart slave-like to bind.
Էջ 3 - He bade me act a manly part, though I had ne'er a farthing, O For without an honest manly heart, no man was worth regarding, O. Then out into the world my course I did determine, O Tho...
Էջ 297 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Էջ 187 - Owe no man anything, but to love one another : for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet ; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Էջ 250 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Էջ 250 - tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear...