But he feels a much higher motive, in the hope of promoting by such a publication the inseparable interests of learning, virtue, and religion. By the writers of that school, whose philosophy consists in the degradation of virtue, it has often been triumphantly... Letters written by the earl of Chatham to Thomas Pitt. Reprby William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1805Full view - About this book
| William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1804 - 142 pages
...consists in the degradation of virtue, it has often been triumphantly declared, that no excellence of character can stand the test of close observation:...virtue," says that inimitable moralist, " is most loved, Avhere it is most nearly seen: and no respect which it commands from strangers, can equal the never-ceasing... | |
| John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...character can stand the test 01 close observation-that no man is a hero to his domestic servants, or to hi. familiar friends. How much more just as well as more...illustrated throughout all his writings..-" Real virtue is most loved, where it is more nearly seen and no respect which it commands from strangers can equal... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...consists in the degradation of virtue, it has often been triumphantly declared, that ' no excellence of character can stand the test of close observation...' no man is a hero to his domestic servants, or to hid familiar friends/ How much more just, as well as more amiable and dignified, is the opposite sentiment,... | |
| William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Europe - 1838 - 534 pages
...reading the eclogue over again, altered the third, fourth, and fifth lines, in order to bring them can stand the test of close observation ; that no...Plutarch, and illustrated throughout all his writings I ' Real virtue,' says that inimitable moralist, ' is most loved where it is most nearly seen : and... | |
| Richard Butler - 1858 - 84 pages
...the spirit of the gospel. It has been said — untruly said by wicked men — that no excellence of character can stand the test of close observation...his domestic, servants, or to his familiar friends. This is a false and wicked saying ; but it is a true saying, and worthy of all remembrance, that no... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 988 pages
...consists in the degradation of virtue, it has often been triumphantly declared, that no excellence of character can stand the test of close observation...his familiar friends. How much more just, as well ns moro amiable and dignified, is the opposite sentiment, delivered to us in the words of Plutarch,... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1872 - 984 pages
...consists in the degradation of virtue, it has often been triumphantly declared, that no excellence of he degree to which he learns the habit of appealing directly to Nature, ami hie familiar friends. How much more just, as well as more amiable and dignified, is the opposite sentiment,... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1805 - 910 pages
...character can Ktand the test of close observation ; that no mnn is a hero to his domestic serrants, or to his familiar friends. How much more just, as...is most loved where it is most nearly seen : and no respcrt, which it commands from tt rangers, can equal the never-ceasing admiration it excites in the... | |
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