The Port Folio, Volume 5Editor and Asbury Dickens, 1811 - Philadelphia (Pa.) |
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... virtue and confidence to truth ; " but should they fail at last , I may exclaim with the dying Mezentius . Nullum in caede nefas , nec sic ad proelia veni . Virg . Æneis ' Tis no dishonour , for the brave to die ; Nor came I here , with ...
... virtue and confidence to truth ; " but should they fail at last , I may exclaim with the dying Mezentius . Nullum in caede nefas , nec sic ad proelia veni . Virg . Æneis ' Tis no dishonour , for the brave to die ; Nor came I here , with ...
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... virtues at Nantucket , and idleness is a vice . Every man upon the island is well acquainted with the cheapest method of procuring lumber from Kennebeck or Passamaquoddy , beef and pork from Connecticut , flower and biscuit from ...
... virtues at Nantucket , and idleness is a vice . Every man upon the island is well acquainted with the cheapest method of procuring lumber from Kennebeck or Passamaquoddy , beef and pork from Connecticut , flower and biscuit from ...
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... virtue or extraordinary talents has therefore been recommended by reason and by the sanction of experience , as the ... virtues which no man could hope to imitate , whatever might be the elevation of his mind , or the purity of his heart ...
... virtue or extraordinary talents has therefore been recommended by reason and by the sanction of experience , as the ... virtues which no man could hope to imitate , whatever might be the elevation of his mind , or the purity of his heart ...
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... virtue while he regulated his pecuniary affairs with regularity and prudence . Nor was he distinguished by any of those disgusting singularities which are generally supposed to be the concomitants of genius , but to all the erudition of ...
... virtue while he regulated his pecuniary affairs with regularity and prudence . Nor was he distinguished by any of those disgusting singularities which are generally supposed to be the concomitants of genius , but to all the erudition of ...
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... virtues and our gods ; and do not in the vain attempt to cultivate a rude and barren soil pluck up the few thrifty plants of native growth , that have survived the fostering cares of thy people , and weathered the stormy career of their ...
... virtues and our gods ; and do not in the vain attempt to cultivate a rude and barren soil pluck up the few thrifty plants of native growth , that have survived the fostering cares of thy people , and weathered the stormy career of their ...
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