Great Truths by Great Authors: A Dictionary of Aids to Reflection, Quotations of Maxims, Metaphors, Counsels, Cautions, Aphorisms, Proverbs, &c. &c. from Writers of All Ages and Both Hemispheres |
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... knowledge of it mainly con- duces to his welfare , and directs his application of his own Powers . Ancestry . Colton . IT is with Antiquity as with Ancestry , Nations are proud of the one , and Individuals of the other ; but if they are ...
... knowledge of it mainly con- duces to his welfare , and directs his application of his own Powers . Ancestry . Colton . IT is with Antiquity as with Ancestry , Nations are proud of the one , and Individuals of the other ; but if they are ...
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... Knowledge cannot always remove . Beauty.Shakspeare . FOR her own Person , It beggar'd all Description ; she did lie In her pavilion , O'erpicturing that Venus , where we see , The Fancy out - work Nature . Beauty . - Byron . AN Eye's an ...
... Knowledge cannot always remove . Beauty.Shakspeare . FOR her own Person , It beggar'd all Description ; she did lie In her pavilion , O'erpicturing that Venus , where we see , The Fancy out - work Nature . Beauty . - Byron . AN Eye's an ...
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... knowledge in her Presence falls Degraded , Wisdom in discourse with her Lose discount'nanc'd , and like Folly shows . Beauty . Young . WHAT tender force , what dignity divine , What virtue consecrating every Feature ; Around that Neck ...
... knowledge in her Presence falls Degraded , Wisdom in discourse with her Lose discount'nanc'd , and like Folly shows . Beauty . Young . WHAT tender force , what dignity divine , What virtue consecrating every Feature ; Around that Neck ...
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... Knowledge fair Presented with a universal Blank Of Nature's Works , to me expung'd and ras'd , And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out . Blindness . Milton . DARK , dark , dark , OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 37 Biography. Terence. ...
... Knowledge fair Presented with a universal Blank Of Nature's Works , to me expung'd and ras'd , And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out . Blindness . Milton . DARK , dark , dark , OR , THINGS NEW AND OLD . 37 Biography. Terence. ...
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... Knowledge of objects , -wonders yet to thee ! To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee , And print on thy soft cheek a Parent's kiss ; — This , it should seem , was not reserved for me ! Yet this was in my nature : -as it is , I know not ...
... Knowledge of objects , -wonders yet to thee ! To hold thee lightly on a gentle knee , And print on thy soft cheek a Parent's kiss ; — This , it should seem , was not reserved for me ! Yet this was in my nature : -as it is , I know not ...
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