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" Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. "
A Rhetorical Grammar: In which the Common Improprieties in Reading and ... - Page 154
by John Walker - 1823 - 373 pages
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry

Lindley Murray - 1826 - 264 pages
...his servant-sun* THOMSOB,, SECTION III. i . i On pride. 1. OF all (he causes, which conspire to Wind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, la pride, the never failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gjves in large...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: From the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...THOMSON. SECTION III. On pride. OF all the causes', which conspire to blind Man's erringjudgment', and misguide the mind', What the weak head with strongest bias rules', Is pride* ; the never-failing vice of fools*. AVnatever nature has in worth deny'd', She gives in large recruits ofneedfid...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1827 - 276 pages
...THOMSON SECTION III. l3 On pride. 1. OF all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring judgement, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...be spoken. Take this couplet from Pope, and read it first with the metrical accent and tone, thus ; What the weak head, with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools. Now let it be observed that in these lines there is really but one emphatic word, namely pride. If...
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Murray's English Reader

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...in our minds. As on our smiling ej-es his servant sun. THOMPSON. SECTION III. On pride. '••) I. Of all the causes, which conspire to blind Man's erring...weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of foolsWhatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of needful...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: To which is Prefixed the Life of ...

Alexander Pope - 1830 - 500 pages
...envy, and in praise of good-nature, ver. 500, ti. When severity ii chiefly to be used by UK critics, Or is b pride ; the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denied, She gives in large...
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Essays on interesting and useful subjects, with a few introductory remarks ...

E. Johnson - 1830 - 270 pages
...power of conferring delight. ESSAY XXII. ON PRIDE. " Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man.s erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is PRIDE, the never-failing vice of fools." POPE. THERE are so many actions improperly attributed to pride, so many...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 pages
...THOMIOM. SECTION III. On pride. 1. Or all the causes, which conspire to Wind Man's erring judgemfint, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. Whatever nature has in worth denv'd, She gives in large recruits of needful...
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The Poetic Reader: Containing Selections from the Most Approved Authors ...

Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...methodis'd. Nature, like liberty, is but restrain'd 5C By the same laws, which first herself ordam'd Of all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring...weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. 55 Whatever nature has in worth deny'd, She gives in large recruits of...
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The American Manual, Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...striking contrast : — to read them with the monotone would make them insipid and <1: rusting : — " What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never failing vice of fools." " With passions unruffled, untainted by pride, By reason, my life let me square; The wants of my nature...
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