The Tin Trumpet: Or Heads and Tales, for the Wise and Waggish. To which are Added Poetical Selections, Volume 1E. L. Carey & A. Hart, 1836 |
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Page 64
... virtue nor a crime , in any one who uses the best means in his power of being informed . If a proposition is evident , we cannot avoid believing it , and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent ? If it is not evident , we can ...
... virtue nor a crime , in any one who uses the best means in his power of being informed . If a proposition is evident , we cannot avoid believing it , and where is the merit or piety of a necessary assent ? If it is not evident , we can ...
Page 65
... virtue , that the fanatics will always have numerous followers , who will hate the moralists even as the ancient Pharisees detested the Christians . Shaftesbury , in his " Characteristics , " has thus defined the different forms of ...
... virtue , that the fanatics will always have numerous followers , who will hate the moralists even as the ancient Pharisees detested the Christians . Shaftesbury , in his " Characteristics , " has thus defined the different forms of ...
Page 79
... virtue , substituted by those great professors of both , who are generally the least performers of either , cant may be designa- ted the characteristic of modern England . Simulation and dissimulation are its constituent elements - the ...
... virtue , substituted by those great professors of both , who are generally the least performers of either , cant may be designa- ted the characteristic of modern England . Simulation and dissimulation are its constituent elements - the ...
Page 84
... virtue as well as talent ? His disinterestedness is a reproach to the sordid , his prudence to the destructives , his determined spirit of reform to the conservatives ; and because he is too in- dependent and lofty to belong to any ...
... virtue as well as talent ? His disinterestedness is a reproach to the sordid , his prudence to the destructives , his determined spirit of reform to the conservatives ; and because he is too in- dependent and lofty to belong to any ...
Page 107
... virtue , with us it is a cowardly crime . The Spartans taught their children to steal ; we whip and imprison ours for the same act . No man's consciencc stings him for killing a single adversary in a duel , or scores in war , because ...
... virtue , with us it is a cowardly crime . The Spartans taught their children to steal ; we whip and imprison ours for the same act . No man's consciencc stings him for killing a single adversary in a duel , or scores in war , because ...
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