Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 pages |
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... inseparably united in the same character . Middleton's Cicero . HONOUR . - True honour will pay treble damages , rather than justify one wrong by another . Wm . Penn's Works . THOUGHTS.He who thinks no man above him but for his 6.
... inseparably united in the same character . Middleton's Cicero . HONOUR . - True honour will pay treble damages , rather than justify one wrong by another . Wm . Penn's Works . THOUGHTS.He who thinks no man above him but for his 6.
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... Penn's Works . CUSTOŠ¼ . - Pythagoras gave this excellent pre- cept : " Choose always the way that seems best ; how rough soever it be . Custom will render it easy and agreeable . " - M . Dacier's Pythagoras . Men often bring habitual ...
... Penn's Works . CUSTOŠ¼ . - Pythagoras gave this excellent pre- cept : " Choose always the way that seems best ; how rough soever it be . Custom will render it easy and agreeable . " - M . Dacier's Pythagoras . Men often bring habitual ...
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... what is right- nor against another man to vex him , or for mere trial of skill , since to inform or be informed ought to be the end of all conferences . - Penn's Works . B A comfortable old age is the reward of a well 13.
... what is right- nor against another man to vex him , or for mere trial of skill , since to inform or be informed ought to be the end of all conferences . - Penn's Works . B A comfortable old age is the reward of a well 13.
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... man gives his neighbours is to let them see that he himself is as little better for what he has as they are . - Penn . What can be a more wretched sight than to see B 2 17 his condition, on account of the evils he must ...
... man gives his neighbours is to let them see that he himself is as little better for what he has as they are . - Penn . What can be a more wretched sight than to see B 2 17 his condition, on account of the evils he must ...
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... Penn's Works . The most difficult people in the world to be pleased are those who know experimentally that they want talents to please . - The World . Our passions are like convulsion fits , which , though they make us stronger for the ...
... Penn's Works . The most difficult people in the world to be pleased are those who know experimentally that they want talents to please . - The World . Our passions are like convulsion fits , which , though they make us stronger for the ...
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