Addresses to Young Men: By James Fordyce, D.D. ...T. Cadell, 1777 |
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... praife of virtue can awaken your ambition ; if honeft love . can gratify your wishes , or your bofoms can glow with the fervour of friendship ; if the manly and magnanimous part should ftill be preferred to the mean and the effe- minate ...
... praife of virtue can awaken your ambition ; if honeft love . can gratify your wishes , or your bofoms can glow with the fervour of friendship ; if the manly and magnanimous part should ftill be preferred to the mean and the effe- minate ...
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... you behave well , the worthy and intelli- gent who know you , will approve ; and their approbation is genuine praife . If thofe who do not know you , chance at any time to adopt a different opinion , can you be 90 ADDRESS IV .
... you behave well , the worthy and intelli- gent who know you , will approve ; and their approbation is genuine praife . If thofe who do not know you , chance at any time to adopt a different opinion , can you be 90 ADDRESS IV .
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... praife , which the trueft modefty may not be permitted freely to enjoy . The conceited and the foolish are ra vished with flattery of all kinds , and from all quarters : their object is mean , and their pursuit of it restless : they are ...
... praife , which the trueft modefty may not be permitted freely to enjoy . The conceited and the foolish are ra vished with flattery of all kinds , and from all quarters : their object is mean , and their pursuit of it restless : they are ...
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... the impartial , as giving an additional ftamp to a praife - worthy character : and perhaps we may be warranted in faying , that the merit which has not been thus thus tried in the furnace of flander , is more 96 ADDRESS IV .
... the impartial , as giving an additional ftamp to a praife - worthy character : and perhaps we may be warranted in faying , that the merit which has not been thus thus tried in the furnace of flander , is more 96 ADDRESS IV .
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... praife . If you , my beloved hearers , will . but hold faft your integrity , will but perfift , without petulance or af- fectation , in the glorious refolve which it was the endeavour of the laft Addrefs to recommend ; you may folace ...
... praife . If you , my beloved hearers , will . but hold faft your integrity , will but perfift , without petulance or af- fectation , in the glorious refolve which it was the endeavour of the laft Addrefs to recommend ; you may folace ...
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Página 178 - And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed unto him but a few days, for the love he had to her.
Página 109 - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Página 238 - But happy they ! the happiest of their kind ! Whom gentler stars unite, and in one fate Their hearts, their fortunes, and their beings blend. 'Tis not the coarser tie of human laws, Unnatural oft and foreign to the mind, That binds their peace, but harmony itself, Attuning...
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Página 82 - He, that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i' th' center, and enjoy bright day: But he, that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.
Página 193 - And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well's mouth.
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