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... virtue which we once neglected . This is an amiable defect , for a defect it frequently is ; and we are in fome danger from the judgment which fuch a temper might induce us to form . But time , which either removes or reconciles us to ...
... virtue which we once neglected . This is an amiable defect , for a defect it frequently is ; and we are in fome danger from the judgment which fuch a temper might induce us to form . But time , which either removes or reconciles us to ...
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... virtue muft be unfairly appreciated . Imperfect are our beft de- cifions ; our rafh ones are not unfrequently impious , because we judge without reafon and information . And this is the judgment which we hatten to pass on moft things ...
... virtue muft be unfairly appreciated . Imperfect are our beft de- cifions ; our rafh ones are not unfrequently impious , because we judge without reafon and information . And this is the judgment which we hatten to pass on moft things ...
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... virtue and nature . The au- thor is in general dignified , when his fubject demands it . He is never encumbered with thofe meretricious ornaments which are employed to hide the want of thought , and which difguft , even more than plain ...
... virtue and nature . The au- thor is in general dignified , when his fubject demands it . He is never encumbered with thofe meretricious ornaments which are employed to hide the want of thought , and which difguft , even more than plain ...
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... virtue are ftagnated , and the very nerve of its emulation is withered by this untimely feverity . Parents fhould be the friends , and they will feldom have occafion to become the go- vernors of their offspring . I know not a more melan ...
... virtue are ftagnated , and the very nerve of its emulation is withered by this untimely feverity . Parents fhould be the friends , and they will feldom have occafion to become the go- vernors of their offspring . I know not a more melan ...
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... virtue with fincerity . His follies do not amount to crimes , and he knows not the reproaches of vice . When he looks back , he is unconscious of meannefs : and though he may blush for the scenes he has paft , yet the purity of his ...
... virtue with fincerity . His follies do not amount to crimes , and he knows not the reproaches of vice . When he looks back , he is unconscious of meannefs : and though he may blush for the scenes he has paft , yet the purity of his ...
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