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... sense of fortitude and courage, than in the modern and Christian sense of true moral excellence.—Ladd. Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always its destroyers too; by frequently ...
... sense of fortitude and courage, than in the modern and Christian sense of true moral excellence.—Ladd. Armies, though always the supporters and tools of absolute power for the time being, are always its destroyers too; by frequently ...
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... sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself.—Mrs. Jameson. God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.—Vinet. Aspirations after the holy—the only ...
... sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of the mind, for the moment realises itself.—Mrs. Jameson. God has never ceased to be the one true aim of all right human aspirations.—Vinet. Aspirations after the holy—the only ...
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... sense and feeble reason, of good eating and ill living.—It is the plague of society, the corrupter of morals, and the underminer of property.— Jeremy Collier. If a man of sober habits, moderato, chaste, and just in all Ids dealings ...
... sense and feeble reason, of good eating and ill living.—It is the plague of society, the corrupter of morals, and the underminer of property.— Jeremy Collier. If a man of sober habits, moderato, chaste, and just in all Ids dealings ...
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... Sense.”) A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man or sense.—Bruyere. There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee ...
... Sense.”) A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man or sense.—Bruyere. There never was any party, faction, sect, or cabal whatsoever, in which the most ignorant were not the most violent; for a bee ...
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... sense and understanding than a child. —Menander. No might nor greatness in mortality can censure 'scape; back wounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes: What king so strong, can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?—Shakespeare ...
... sense and understanding than a child. —Menander. No might nor greatness in mortality can censure 'scape; back wounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes: What king so strong, can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?—Shakespeare ...
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