Laconics: Or Instructive Miscellanies, Selected from the Best Authors, Ancient and Modern ...1827 - 188 pages |
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... manners gentle ; of affections mild ; In wit a man ; simplicity a child ; With native humour tempering virtuous rage , Proud to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation in a low estate , And uncorrupted e'en among the great ...
... manners gentle ; of affections mild ; In wit a man ; simplicity a child ; With native humour tempering virtuous rage , Proud to delight at once and lash the age ; Above temptation in a low estate , And uncorrupted e'en among the great ...
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... manners . Equality , the grand object he had in view , was not kept up ; arts and sciences did not flourish , and commerce was still more neglected . And why so ? because , when we set ourselves to carry any one virtue to the highest ...
... manners . Equality , the grand object he had in view , was not kept up ; arts and sciences did not flourish , and commerce was still more neglected . And why so ? because , when we set ourselves to carry any one virtue to the highest ...
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... manners which is not less friendly to virtue than luxury itself . Men are less ashamed as they are less polished ... manner of improvement . Spectator . C Justice and generosity rightly blended constitute a dignified character ; 25.
... manners which is not less friendly to virtue than luxury itself . Men are less ashamed as they are less polished ... manner of improvement . Spectator . C Justice and generosity rightly blended constitute a dignified character ; 25.
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... MANNERS . - Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse ; who- ever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred man in company . - Swift . WISDOM . - Many people make a proper use of the light , yet ...
... MANNERS . - Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse ; who- ever makes the fewest persons uneasy is the best bred man in company . - Swift . WISDOM . - Many people make a proper use of the light , yet ...
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... manners live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . AGE . They talk idly who pretend that age dis- ables from business . They might with as much justice assert , that a pilot on board a ship does no- thing , because he neither ...
... manners live in brass ; their virtues we write in water . AGE . They talk idly who pretend that age dis- ables from business . They might with as much justice assert , that a pilot on board a ship does no- thing , because he neither ...
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