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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from ... - Page 75
by Edmund Burke - 1804
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Report of the Commissioner of Education Made to the Secretary of ..., Volume 1

United States. Bureau of Education - Education - 1896 - 1140 pages
...our nature. To bring tlio dispositions that are lovely lu private life into the service and eonduct of the Commonwealth— so to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen. * * * Public life is a situation of power ami energy; he tresI'lMses ugaiust his duty who sleeps upon...
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A Great Chancellor and Other Papers

James Lambert High, Edwin Burritt Smith - Law - 1901 - 300 pages
...every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct...commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget that we are gentlemen. To cultivate friendships, and to incur enmities. To have both strong, but both...
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The Pilgrims' Way: A Little Scrip of Good Counsel for Travellers

Arthur Quiller-Couch - Anthologies - 1906 - 352 pages
...every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct...selected ; in the one to be placable ; in the other, immovable. To model our principles to our duties and our situation. To be fully persuaded that all...
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University Chronicle, Volume 1

United States - 1898 - 592 pages
...every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct...patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen. ***** To model our principles to our duties and our situation. To be fully persuaded, that all virtue which...
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Seeing and Hearing

George William Erskine Russell - England - 1907 - 412 pages
...in his description of the ideal character : " It is our business ... to bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct...selected — in the one to be placable, in the other immovable." Whoso has attained to that ideal has learnt the " Secret " of Oxford. XIII SCHOOLS FOR...
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Seeing and Hearing

George William Erskine Russell - England - 1907 - 412 pages
...in his description of the ideal character : " It is our business ... to bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct...selected — in the one to be placable, in the other immovable." Whoso has attained to that ideal has learnt the " Secret " of Oxford. XIII SCHOOLS FOR...
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Seeing and Hearing

George William Erskine Russell - England - 1907 - 412 pages
...in his description of the ideal character: " It is our business ... to bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct...to incur enmities ; to have both strong, but both selected—in the one to be placable, in the other immovable." Whoso has attained to that ideal has...
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Ten Great and Good Men: Lectures

Henry Montagu Butler - Great Britain - 1909 - 346 pages
...every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature ; to bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct...to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen." How humane he is ! How " large," as we said, is his " utterance " 1 The other passage of which I was...
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Readings in English Prose of the Eighteenth Century

Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct...selected; in the one, to be placable, — in the other, immovable. To model our principles to our duties and our situation. To be fully persuaded that all...
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One Look Back

George William Erskine Russell - 1911 - 400 pages
...his description of the ideal character : — " It is our business ... to bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct...selected — in the one to be placable, in the other immovable." Whoso has attained to that ideal has learnt the " Secret " of Oxford. VI HOME "Type of...
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