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Page 146
... truth is perpetually joined with the love of virtue ; for there is no vir- tue which derives not its original from truth ; as , on the con- trary , there is no vice that has not its beginning from a lie . Truth is the foundation of all ...
... truth is perpetually joined with the love of virtue ; for there is no vir- tue which derives not its original from truth ; as , on the con- trary , there is no vice that has not its beginning from a lie . Truth is the foundation of all ...
Page 147
... truth , ( which is the principal , ) that he made it his whole business to deliver nothing to posterity which might deceive them ; and by that diligence and exactness may easily be known to be studious of truth , and a lover of it ...
... truth , ( which is the principal , ) that he made it his whole business to deliver nothing to posterity which might deceive them ; and by that diligence and exactness may easily be known to be studious of truth , and a lover of it ...
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... Truth ; no otherwise Cervantes and Shakspeare . This playfulness of Truth is beautifully repre- sented by Landor , in the conversation between Marcus Cicero and his brother , in an allegory which has the voice and the spirit of Plato ...
... Truth ; no otherwise Cervantes and Shakspeare . This playfulness of Truth is beautifully repre- sented by Landor , in the conversation between Marcus Cicero and his brother , in an allegory which has the voice and the spirit of Plato ...
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DAY SUBJECT 119 Of Improving by good Examples | 5 |
Primitive Christians | 9 |
Summer | 14 |
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