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... pleasure , or even dollars or calico , must needs be in a poor way . It were better to revert to Homer's gods than be devoted to these ; for the heathen deities at least imaged human virtues , and were something to look up to . As for ...
... pleasure , or even dollars or calico , must needs be in a poor way . It were better to revert to Homer's gods than be devoted to these ; for the heathen deities at least imaged human virtues , and were something to look up to . As for ...
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... pleasure and idleness - work , in the later days of Rome , being regarded only as fit for slaves . Its citizens ceased to pride them- selves on the virtues of character of their great fore- fathers ; and the empire fell because it did ...
... pleasure and idleness - work , in the later days of Rome , being regarded only as fit for slaves . Its citizens ceased to pride them- selves on the virtues of character of their great fore- fathers ; and the empire fell because it did ...
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... pleasure — each little self his own little god - such a nation is doomed , and its decay is inevitable . Where national character ceases to be upheld , a nation may be regarded as next to lost . Where it ceases to esteem and to practise ...
... pleasure — each little self his own little god - such a nation is doomed , and its decay is inevitable . Where national character ceases to be upheld , a nation may be regarded as next to lost . Where it ceases to esteem and to practise ...
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... pleasures of youth , as did incline them to spend much of their time in her company , which was to her great content . " The home is the true school of courtesy , of which woman is always the best practical instructor . " With- out ...
... pleasures of youth , as did incline them to spend much of their time in her company , which was to her great content . " The home is the true school of courtesy , of which woman is always the best practical instructor . " With- out ...
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... pleasure -which , however , it must be confessed , he himself did not a little to foster . It would thus seem that the dis- cipline which France still needs to learn , if she would be good and great , is that indicated by the First ...
... pleasure -which , however , it must be confessed , he himself did not a little to foster . It would thus seem that the dis- cipline which France still needs to learn , if she would be good and great , is that indicated by the First ...
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Page 185 - I may have but a minute to speak to you. My dear, be a good man - be virtuous - be religious - be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here.
Page 249 - Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope, With what I most enjoy contented least; Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising, Haply I think on thee...
Page 327 - MORTON'S WIFE. He first deceased ; she for a little tried To live without him, liked it not, and died.
Page 171 - High-heartedness doth sometimes teach to bow. A noble heart doth teach a virtuous scorn, To scorn to owe a duty overlong ; To scorn to be for benefits forborne, To scorn to lie, to scorn to do a wrong. To scorn to bear an injury in mind, To scorn a free-born heart slave-like to bind.
Page 3 - He bade me act a manly part, though I had ne'er a farthing, O For without an honest manly heart, no man was worth regarding, O. Then out into the world my course I did determine, O Tho...
Page 297 - Who can find a virtuous woman? For her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Page 187 - Owe no man anything, but to love one another : for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet ; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Page 250 - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Page 250 - tis true I have gone here and there, And made myself a motley to the view, Gored mine own thoughts, sold cheap what is most dear...