The Works of Hannah More, Volumen4Henry G. Bohn, 1853 |
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... ambition and false glory ; and if it rescue him , on the other , from the habit of forming petty projects of incessant diversion , the rudiments of a trifling and useless life . Knowledge , therefore , is often the preservative of ...
... ambition and false glory ; and if it rescue him , on the other , from the habit of forming petty projects of incessant diversion , the rudiments of a trifling and useless life . Knowledge , therefore , is often the preservative of ...
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... ambition and volup- tuousness cannot always be gratified . Those ardent passions , which in youth were devoted to licentious- ness , in the meridian of life to war , in a more advanced age to bigotry and intolerance , not only had never ...
... ambition and volup- tuousness cannot always be gratified . Those ardent passions , which in youth were devoted to licentious- ness , in the meridian of life to war , in a more advanced age to bigotry and intolerance , not only had never ...
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... ambition . He should be com- petently acquainted with the present state of the different governments of Europe , with which that of Great Britain may have any political relation ; and he should be led to exercise that intuitive discern ...
... ambition . He should be com- petently acquainted with the present state of the different governments of Europe , with which that of Great Britain may have any political relation ; and he should be led to exercise that intuitive discern ...
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... ambition of one , caution from the rashness of another , and pru- dence perhaps from the indiscretion of both ! To apply foregone examples to his own use ; adopting what is excellent , shunning what is erroneous , and omitting what is ...
... ambition of one , caution from the rashness of another , and pru- dence perhaps from the indiscretion of both ! To apply foregone examples to his own use ; adopting what is excellent , shunning what is erroneous , and omitting what is ...
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... ambition of every aspiring spirit in the Greek democracies . Bossuet , * who has , perhaps , penetrated more deeply into these subjects than almost any modern , has pronounced Egypt to be the fountain of all political wisdom . * Jacques ...
... ambition of every aspiring spirit in the Greek democracies . Bossuet , * who has , perhaps , penetrated more deeply into these subjects than almost any modern , has pronounced Egypt to be the fountain of all political wisdom . * Jacques ...
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