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... affect those quali- ties and accomplishments , from the want of which they derive their highest merit . " The porcelain clay of human kind , " says an admired writer , speaking of the sex . Greater delicacy evidently implies greater ...
... affect those quali- ties and accomplishments , from the want of which they derive their highest merit . " The porcelain clay of human kind , " says an admired writer , speaking of the sex . Greater delicacy evidently implies greater ...
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... affect to be transported beyond what the occasion will justify . As a farther confirmation of what has been ad- vanced on the different bent of the understand- ing in the sexes , it may be observed , B 2 INTRODUCTION . 9.
... affect to be transported beyond what the occasion will justify . As a farther confirmation of what has been ad- vanced on the different bent of the understand- ing in the sexes , it may be observed , B 2 INTRODUCTION . 9.
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... affect none . They think that sin , like matter , is divisible , and that what is scattered among so many , cannot materially affect any one ; and thus individuals contribute separately to that evil which they in general lament . The ...
... affect none . They think that sin , like matter , is divisible , and that what is scattered among so many , cannot materially affect any one ; and thus individuals contribute separately to that evil which they in general lament . The ...
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... affect to be on her guard , lest she should be found guilty of a small portion of it ? She need be the less solicitous about it , as it seldom proves to be so very considerable as to excite astonish- ment or admiration : for , after all ...
... affect to be on her guard , lest she should be found guilty of a small portion of it ? She need be the less solicitous about it , as it seldom proves to be so very considerable as to excite astonish- ment or admiration : for , after all ...
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... affect open- ly to admire what they secretly resolve never to forgive . I have always been delighted with the story of the little girl's eloquence , in one of the chil- dren's tales , who received from a friendly fairy the gift , that ...
... affect open- ly to admire what they secretly resolve never to forgive . I have always been delighted with the story of the little girl's eloquence , in one of the chil- dren's tales , who received from a friendly fairy the gift , that ...
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Abdiel acquaintance acquire admiration affect agreeable amiable amusement attain attention beauty become blessings character charm Christian connex contempt CORNELIA COUNTESS OF CARLISLE cultivated dangerous daugh dear girls delicacy delight desire dignity disposition divine Egyptian hieroglyphic elegance envy esteem ev'ry evil FABLE fair feel female finer feeling folly friendship genius give grace happiness heart heav'n honour human husband ideas idolatry indolence innocent kind knowledge ladies lative learning lence LETTER Lord Chesterfield mankind ment merit mind moral nation nature nerally ness never numbers nymph o'er oblique reflections pain passions perhaps person Philip of Macedon Phoenicia pleasure polite possess pow'r pride prudence quire racter reason refined religion render sense sensibility sentiments soul spirit superior sweet taste temper thing thou tion truth tural ture vanity vice virtue weakness wish woman women wretched Xenocrates young yourselves
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Page 63 - He made him ride on the high places of the earth, That he might eat the increase of the fields; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock...
Page 183 - Fresh pleasure only: for the attentive mind By this harmonious action on her powers Becomes herself harmonious: wont so oft In outward things to meditate the charm Of sacred order, soon she seeks at home To find a kindred order, to exert Within herself this elegance of love, This fair inspir'd delight: her temper'd powers Refine at length, and every passion wears A chaster, milder, more attractive mien.
Page 52 - So spake the seraph 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.
Page 123 - Be even cautious in displaying your good sense. It will be thought you assume a superiority over the rest of the company. — But if you happen to have any learning, keep it a profound secret...
Page 99 - The mind is but a barren soil; a soil which is soon exhausted, and will produce no crop, or only one, unless it be continually fertilized and enriched with foreign matter.
Page 242 - which has the promise of this life, " as well as of that which is to come.
Page 50 - The thing which hath been, it is that which shall be ; and that which is done, is that which shall be done ; and there is no new thing under the sun.
Page 12 - ... in order to free the state from such unserviceable citizens. He frequently had men racked before him while he sat at table, ironically pitying their misfortunes, and blaming their executioner. And as the height of insane cruelty, he once expressed the wish " that all the Roman people had but one neck, that he might dispatch them at a single blow.
Page 51 - For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page 183 - Each passing hour sheds tribute from her wings ; And still new beauties meet his lonely walk, And loves unfelt attract him. Not a breeze Flies o'er the meadow, not a cloud imbibes The setting Sun's effulgence, not a strain From all the tenants of the warbling shade Ascends, but whence his bosom can partake Fresh pleasure, unreproved.